The+Negro+Speaks+of+Rivers-Speaker

The speaker in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" seems to be an Afican american. I say that because the title of the poem emphasize that it's and African american talking. We also think that it's and african american because it says that he "bathed in the Euphrates". The Euphrates is a river in Africa so when the speaker says that than it shows that maybe he has some african roots. We also believe that he is African because it talks about how "Abe Lincoln went down to New orleans" in the Mississippi River. To African americans Abraham Lincoln was in a way a hero because he abolished slavery, so by the speaker talking about him like that it shows his happyness that he is free. Those are the reasons why think that the speaker is African.