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Washington City Is Burning Study Guide

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by Harriette Gillem Robinet
About 9 pages (2,653 words)

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Social Sensitivity

Robinet approaches the intrinsic struggle in racial inequality with compassion.

She portrays the daily lives of the slaves without optimism. Not only does she compare the lives of the White House slaves but she also shows the plight of slaves shackled in chains walking row-by-row on their way to market to be sold.

Robinet discusses the dilemma in slavery: Miss Dolley admits that she does not like slavery; however, as a Virginian, she upholds the state's laws.....

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Washington City Is Burning from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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