PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A
“Most found jobs as farm laborers – doing essentially the same work they had done as slaves, but now for a meager wage.” ( Paragraph 2)
B
“The governments of southern states ignored the hardships of the African American community and continued to care mainly about white citizens.” ( Paragraph 2)
C
“in the early 1900s African Americans began moving north where they could find better paid jobs working in city factories instead of on farms.” ( Paragraph 3)
D
“These immigrants, often former slaves as well, also faced discrimination and oppression in their home countries.” ( Paragraph 3)

The answer to part A is: The enslavement of Africans by Europeans was a brutal practice that would have lasting effects on America.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.