Andrew 8-15-23

 We learned about Langston Hughes’s poem THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS. He uses rivers to Africa from Congo which he uses to describe the beginning. Then he uses the Nile which uses to represent the start of slavery and then he uses the Mississippi River to represent the more modern slavery in the country he lives in. He also shows the end of it when he says “I’ve seen it’s muddy bosom turn all holes in the sunset.” I feel like in this poem that he is talking about the beginning and ending of slavery and Also the end of slavery in America.