In lift every voice and sing, what kind of road did the people walk along?

a dirt road

Explanation:

it says it it the story

the speakers along a "way." This "way," or "path," is a metaphor for the progress toward liberty. A bit how like we're all on the "road" to better understanding this poem, the speakers of the poem are on the "road" to freedom.

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