One Hundred Years Later The Negro Analysis

The author chooses the words manacles and chains because he is referring to how the colored race has no freedom, and how the white race ignored the Declaration of Independence.The author wrote, ‘’One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.’’ This explained how they felt locked up and were not able to do things that everyday people got to do while they couldn’t, while they were in their own city. He was evoking that there would one day be peace and everyone could be equal, and that they could be free in their own country, own land, and own