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How does Grace Nichols convey the life of the slave women in her poetry? One way Grace Nichols shows us how the slave women had to live is by saying what they had to do for their captors. In her poem 'We the women' Grace says 'we the women who cutclearfetchdigsing'. The idea of not putting spaces between each work shows how hard they had to work without a break. Grace also says 'we the women who toil' which also shows how hard they had to work. The simile 'whose deaths they sweep aside as easy as dead leaves' shows how much they were hated and seen as pieces of rubbish. The use of the word 'we' in the poem shows just how many women had been captured and a gives a sense of empathy with the slave women. The sun in this poem is shown as a bad figure...

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