Compare And Contrast The People Could Fly And Harriet Tubman

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Have you ever compared and contrasted two texts? You can compare and contrast the text in many ways. You can compare the texts “The People Could Fly” and “Harriet Tubman” in many ways. One comparison is that both texts talk about how the slaves would get whipped by their “owners” if they are lacking in speed and work ethic like how it says in paragraph three in “The People Could Fly”,”So the one called Driver cracked his whip over the slow ones to make them move faster. That whip was a sliced-open cut of pain. So they did move faster. Had to.” And in paragraph six,” Because the runaway slave had been caught, would be whipped, and finally sold to the chain gang.” Virginia Hamilton uses historical facts in her story “The People Could Fly”. The

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