This morning I have been notified, that since you are a colored regiment, you will be paid $10 a month." ... "White men dying for you, time has come and hidey up and fight like men. Men dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool!" ... As the soldiers became ready for the next day of war, many of the man said some words to their former soldiers, "You'se the only family I got, I love the 54th!" ... As all of them lay dead on the field, it was finally realized that in the end, race will never matter, what will matter is the heart and the accomplishment given by the individual. ...

• Word Count: 1546
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In one of her most popular poems, "On Beings Brought from Africa to America," Wheatley writes 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught me benighted soul to understand That there's a god, that there's a savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their color is a diabolic die." ... She recognizes that many whites believed Africans' dark skin color was representative of the devil, as she refers to what many whites see as "diabolic die." Here, die is another spelling for what we now call dye. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School