Just because slavery ended did not mean segregation, prejudice, and hate did. Many people did not like that they were granted these rights and segregated them, based on the "separate but equal" principle. The South is famous for its Jim Crow laws that segregated black Americans, but segregation existed everywhere. Groups such as the kkk formed, etc.
The rivers are the seine, rhone, and loire
I will try my best to answer this next time
I would have to say D " A phantom ship , with each mast and spar/ Across the moon like a prison bar,/ And a huge black hulk, that was magnified / By its own reflection in the tide.
It reminds me of her poem of when she came from Africa to America.