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“I knew that it would be called the United States.

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  • But I refused to speak that name. There was nothing united about a nation that said all men were created equal, but that kept my people in chains.”

    Aminata

    Aminata harbors no love for the country in which she lives, neither Britain nor the United States.

    When she was made witness to the birth of the new nation, she was disgusted. She didn't want these people to succeed because she knew they didn't deserve it.

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    Their success was made upon the trodden corpses of their slaves.

    “That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.”

    Aminata

    In this quotation, Aminata talks about how it feels to be a slave.

    She was robbed of her childhood, stolen like an object and carried away. When she walks down t