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Similarities Between The People Could Fly And Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman and The People Could Fly are two stories about Slavery. They were both located on a plantation. The two stories are very different but they have their similarities.
To start with, The people in both stories lived in misery. The people trembled in fear. That’s because they both were enslaved. In Harriet Tubman, it’s all throughout the writing. From not being able to sing and be free to only getting little clothing. For example, it states, “Once a year, on issue day, they received clothing.” That sentence gave me a hint that the 2 pairs of clothing they get to stay with them all year. Moving on to The people could fly, it has evidence. It states, “The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea.”

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