“One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”
This phrase has the strongest emotional connotation because it details two of the struggles that African Americans are faced with. Loneliness in their plight and poverty. Options B and D do not have any emotional connotations. Option A discusses a long night of captivity but one must infer the emotions whereas Option C directly states them.
The influence of Old English in the Mayflower Compact is most easily discernible in grammatical structure. Spelling and punctuation, as well as capitalization is not very different from today's.