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AMERICAN SONNET (10) by WANDA COLEMAN

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First Line: OUR MOTHERS WRUNG HELL AND HARDTACK FROM ROW
Last Line: Yearning to avenge the raping of the womb / from which we sprang
Subject(s): SLAVERY; SERFS;
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