This excerpt shows how Debs has endured and shared the harsh working conditions of laborers (D.).
Many verbal groups indicate his physical involvement in the working people's daily life and how it affected him emotionally:
- "I had ... been stung by the exposure ... of the rail;"
- "I was with the boys ... at the broken engine's side;"
- "helped to bear;"
- "feel the burden."
As for the harsh working conditions, they are described by the following nouns and adjectives:
- "hardship;"
- "weary;"
- "bruised and bleeding bodies;"
- "burden."
We know that they are laborers and not, for example, business owners, because their work is very manual. Besides, the term "working class" appears in the text, as well as "Proletaire" which is borrowed from French and means "belonging to the lower social classes."
Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
This Artifact indicates that the Byzantine Empire spread Christianity, namely due to the east-west schism, Eastern Orthodoxy. :)
It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture<span> was known during the period as Opus Francigenum ("French work") with the term </span>Gothic<span> first appearing during the later part of the Renaissance.</span>