The Negro Mother By Langston Hughes

By reading “The Negro Mother” by Langston Hughes I felt very inspired. This poem encouraged me to continue to strive for greatness. Many black slaves’ in particular African American woman and the different trials that they had to go through to get where we are today. The speaker in the poem was an African American mother who was once a slave encouraging the younger black generation to keep on demanding equality and freedom and never forget who paved the way. In the poem, Hughes uses diction, allusion, and imagery to portray the theme

The speaker of the poem was a mother who was determined, tired, and beyond grateful. She was a African American woman, and the reader concluded that because of the past stories about being a slave and the title