Analyzing Frances Harper's Learning To Read

How Aunt Chloe Got Liberation Through Reading The American Civil War occurred between the Confederate States of America and the Union for four years from 1861-1865. The Union is the North area, which is industrialized and urbanized. In contrast, the Confederate States of America is the South, which was rural and had a slavery system. They had a serious conflict about the Union’s opposition to the slavery system. This conflict resulted in the war with the Confederate States of America as they wanted an independent and separate country from the North. However, after long years of conflict, the North defeated the South because the North was more industrialized and had more resources, military weapons, and population. After the Civil War, the slavery …show more content…
She was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. She joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and supported the abolition of slavery with her anti-slavery speech. In this process, she faced much prejudice and discrimination in her life even though she was a free African American. In her poem, she conveyed the importance of education to the enslaved people for their independence and freedom. This essay will read Frances Harper’s poem “Learning to Read” and show how she used characterization to show how education represented a means of liberation for African Americans after the American Civil War. As Harper went to the South as a teacher, her poem starts with the same story “Very soon the Yankee teachers came down and set up school” (1-2). The Yankee teacher was a white or black person who came to the South from the North to teach enslaved people to read and write after the Civil War. This line shows that it happened during the Reconstruction era. The line “But, oh, oh! how the Rebs did hate it,/ It was agin’ their rule” (3-4) reminds of how the South was against the abolition of the system of

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