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Document Analysis Essay 5

Document Analysis Essay 5

Q When was this document written? Who was the author and who was the intended audience?  Why was this document written (i.e. what were the author’s purposes)? What kind if mindset did the author bring to his subject? What does the document reveal about historical change in the society in which it was produced? What does it reveal about the causes of those changes?

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The document highlights the speech by Nelson Mandela, which he gave in 1964 before his trial as he was convicted for sabotaging the voting process and the role he played as an African National Congress activist, inciting strikes and making illegal attempt to leave the country. The intended audience for the speech is the people who are hoping to witness his trial, people like him who have been subjected to apartheid and discrimination, and also all the people are in power and positions of authority to remind them of the atrocities they have subjected the Africans to.