Answer to Question #223054 in English for gavin

Question

What do you think is the writer’s purpose in this text? Provide two relevant examples from the text to support your answer.

Answer 1

Maya a civil rights activist shines a light on readers about happiness that occupied slaves' hearts after freedom. They are immigrating and freeing any form of discrimination they underwent as a result of their blackness as the color meant they were not equal to the whites who took them as slaves and so remained inferior. The immigration journey begins and children need shoes to travel on. Slaves were not allowed to own shoes in the first place until they gained freedom. Examples;" For the first time ...the color of our skin was accepted “," children need travel shoes"