Do a safe search on the Internet or visit your local library to find images of wood, ivory, and brass carvings and plaques from the Kingdom of Benin, the ancestral
homeland of the Ibo people. What can you infer about life in the Benin Empire from
the scenes the art depicts? Write an essay on the art and what you can infer about
life in the Benin Empire from the scenes the art depicts.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination