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…showed last 75 words of 723 total…the oppression she had faced in her life, Harper was able to see the political injustice that was taking place at the time this poem was written. Using the language of the uneducated minority, the events that encompassed the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the courageous tone of the speaker, Aunt Chloe, Francis E. W. Harper delivered her message of equality and political honesty to every person that takes the time to read this poem.