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'The huts of history's shame' refers to

  • A.a shameful event in history
  • B.abject poverty
  • C.modest living standards
  • D.comfortable existence

Answer: A

'The huts of history's shame' refers to a shameful event in history.

The speaker rises 'out of the huts of history's shame' and 'up from a past that's rooted in pain'. Here the poet means the shameful history of slavery and racial oppression, in which her people lived in those huts. The phrase points to that wrong done in history.

Abject poverty and modest living standards describe conditions, which were a result of that history and are not what the phrase refers to. 'Comfortable existence' is the reverse of the poem's image.

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