Call of the Wild
In the poem " Free Labor" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
What does the chains in "Stanzas on Freedom" symbolize?
What does the chains in "Stanzas on Freedom" symbolize?
Men! whose boast it is that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain,
When it works a brother's pain,
I think that "chain" relates to both slaves and people who are not slaves. Can anybody be truly free when another humanbeing is in chains. The metaphorical chains applies to everyone.