SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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She wanted to prove that African Americans were capable of highlyacademic thought
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She wanted to show off
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It was the only way to write poetry at the time
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She wanted to show that she was special and better than other African Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phillis Wheatley used her poetry to fight against the inequality encouraged by slavery. Initially, her poetry was regarded as a threat to the conventional style of society. However, with time, anti-slavery proponents were beginning to use Wheatley to prove that no race was superior to another.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poems on Various Subjects revealed that Wheatley’s favorite poetic form was the couplet, both iambic pentameter and heroic. More than one-third of her canon is composed of elegies, poems on the deaths of noted persons, friends, or even strangers whose loved ones employed the poet.
Detailed explanation-3: -As the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry, Wheatley uses this poem to argue that all people, regardless of race, are capable of finding salvation through Christianity.
Detailed explanation-4: -She has to find a way in her poetry to show the evils of slavery and racism, while protecting her position and getting her work out to the public. The overall message of ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America’ is to point out the hypocrisy of Christians who treat Blacks as inferior.