HURRY

Which excerpt fromThe People Could Fly reflects the historical fact that enslaved people were kidnapped and sent overseas?

The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea. So they forgot about flyin when they could no longer breathe the sweet scent of Africa.
One such who could was an old man, call him Toby. And standin tall, yet afraid, was a young woman who once had wings.
But Toby just laughed. Say he threw back his head and said, “Hee, hee! Don't you know who I am? Don't you know some of us in this field?”
Say the child grew hungry. That babe started up bawling too loud. Sarah couldn't stop to feed it.

the first one. it talk about the ups and downs of the sea.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

the author is showing that it is the insatisfaction of basic needs that brings about the protests such as the strikes.if workers do not earn enough to buy food and feed their families and themselves in order to continue working, what is the use of working? besides, another message from the author is that of the owners of factories should be worried about ensuring their furure by having a second and third generation of workers in their industries.if they do not hear the workers demands, they will not have any more workers to make their pockets full.