Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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nat turner, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
She Goes Back
...She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey
Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop
Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works the big house
Harriet r...
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Categories:
nat turner, anger, devotion, hope, passion,
Form: Alliteration
She Goes Back
...She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey
Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop
Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works the big house
Harriet r...
...
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Categories:
nat turner, courage, freedom, loss, spiritual,
Form: Alliteration
She Goes Back
...She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey
Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop
Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works the big house
Harriet runs ...
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nat turner, courage, dedication, journey, pain,
Form: Alliteration
Spirituals and Drums
...My ancestors walking in the night
using oil lights and moonlight for guides
while being instructed to Wade in the Water
to camouflage their scents like disguise
The Sweet Chariot awaited
so they co...
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nat turner, art, bible, black african
Form: Verse
Fallen Leaders
...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG.
THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING.
THEY DO.
THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV...
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Categories:
nat turner, education, history, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 3 (Finale)
...We started going house to house and freeing all the
slaves, then killing all the white folks left with
hatchets, knives and chains,
we only used blunt objects to conceal our wave of
smoke, I...
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nat turner, historyhouse, me, day, house,
Form: Rhyme
Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 2
...I heard a loud noise in the heavens, God what can it
be? The air around me shimmered then a Spirit
came to me,
I couldn't move a muscle due to hard work in the
heat, the Spirit then began to...
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Categories:
nat turner, historygod, work, god, work,
Form: Rhyme
Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 1
...The original version of this piece is too long for me
to post in its entirety, so it had to be sectioned off. Of
all that I've written, I am most proud of this work due
to its historical accura...
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nat turner, historygod, me, old, work,
Form: Rhyme
Home of the Slaves
...Land of the free
Home of the slaves
The blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors resonate
Amongst the soil where they were slain
I’m hearing their struggle
I’m feeling their pain
I can’t imagine being ...
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Categories:
nat turner, allegory, black african american,
Form: Verse