Why do you think the poem mentions Cuba and Hawaii? Consider both islands' histories and relationships with colonizers and the United States.

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Read The Black Man's Burden, by Reverend H. T. Johnson (1899)

Why do you think the poem mentions Cuba and Hawaii? Consider both islands' histories and relationships with colonizers and the United States.

Answer:

African Americans, were against the idea of the "white man's burden", so H. T. Johnson published The Black Man's Burden to represent that unease feeling about a new empire in the Caribean by the United States, which aimed for power over Cuba, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico.

Explanation:

This poem was Johnson's response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" which called the United States to conquer non-white countries as a moral responsibility.