Book Knowledege
What's the author's son's name?
Samori
Redemptive
"The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history."
Acting to save someone from error or evil.
"We are, as Derrick Bell once wrote, the "faces at the bottom of the well."
Comparison
How old is the authors son at the time of writing?
15
Transfigured
"You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold."
Transform into something more beautiful or elevated.
"Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains..."
Evidence / Logos
Who was Coates' son named after?
Samori Touré who fought against French Colonizers, and left a legacy of how black peoples struggle makes it better for those in the future.
Parable
"For this woman,enslavement is not a parable."
Existing at or from the beginning of time.
“A world in which these same professors held this woman a slave, hold her mother a slave, her father a slave, her daughter a slave”(70).
Epistrophe
How many McDonald's locations are there in the United States?
There are 13,562 McDonalds locations in the United States as of September 23, 2024.