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Compare the ways Maya Angelou and William Cowper present the issue of slavery in the poems 'Still I Rise' and 'The Negro's Complaint'.
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Compare the ways Maya Angelou and William Cowper present the issue of slavery in the poems 'Still I Rise' and 'The Negro's Complaint' The poems, 'Still I Rise' and 'The Negro's Complaint', clearly present the issues of slavery in different ways. 'Still I Rise' was written in the 1970's by a poet called Maya Angelou. Angelou was a black American. Angelou writes about the effects which slavery had on black people and how she always rose above what happened in her life. Hence the name of the poem, 'Still I Rise'. On the other hand, 'The Negro's Complaint', was written in 1788 when slavery was still legal, therefore, Cowper's poem was seen as very controversial at the time when it was written. 'Still I Rise' was written many years after the slave trade was abolished but nevertheless, white people were segregated from the blacks in this very racist time. Obviously the main...
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