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MONTICELLO by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: GOD DECLARES NO INDEPENDENCE
Last Line: FROM THIS BLACK SALLY %BRANDED WITH JEFFERSON HAIR
Subject(s): SLAVERY;

Poem Sources:

GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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