4. What important word does Hurston repeat in paragraph 7? What key idea does this repetition convey? Support your responses with evidence from the text

Slavery

In context, the repetition of the word slavery conveys Hurston's acknowledgment of her ancestry, but it is also used as one of the driving factors for what she was able to accomplish.

It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Get set!" and the generation before said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

It is a bully adventure and worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world to be won and nothing to be lost.