He thought that people can build a Utopian society with socialist idealism
Known as Utopian socialism, it's the presentation of imaginary and futuristic ideal of society where there is no war, no hunger, and no crimes
This vision of this society was inspired by Karl Max social democratic movement, where the government basically tell the people what to do and the people don't have freedom to choose what they're gonna do for their career
To be involved in soical business around him or her and to not be excluded
They (Africans) were driven by their homelands.
Effect --> They conquered others + created powerful states up north.
Slavery still affects our nation today because people are wanting apologies for things our ancestors did. It also still affects our nation because of the black market when people are still selling people for slaves.
The sleeping speaker is compared to a stone on the riverbed; both lie still. The image of being in water is reinforced by these words elsewhere in the poem: "floated"; "rose and fell, as if in water."