Being Brought From Africa to America Summary & Study Guide
Being Brought From Africa to America Overview
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a poem by Phillis Wheatley, first published in her 1773 collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who was kidnapped from her home (likely in West Africa) and trafficked to the United States when she was a young girl. The poem describes her religious awakening and explores Wheatley's feelings about her enslavement and the Christian conversion to which it led.
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Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784), the first African American woman poet, was a celebrated literary figure in Boston during the Revolutionary era.In 1761, a frail child of seven or eight years, Phillis...
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Biography EssayPhillis Wheatley's status as a slave has hampered a thorough consideration of her work. While many modern readers-accustomed to placing emphasis upon writers' personal reactions to thei...
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Although she was an African slave, Phillis Wheatley was one of the best-known poets in prenineteenth-century America. Pampered in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionize...
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Phillis Wheatley's status as a slave has hampered a thorough consideration of her work. While many modern readers--accustomed to placing emphasis upon writers' personal reactions to their subjects--ag...
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