Phillis Wheatley's Taken Away From Her Homeland Of America
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This poem explains Phillis Wheatley feelings on being stolen from her homeland of Africa and being transported to America. Phillis Wheatley saw being carried over from Africa to America as an eye opener. Prior to this incident she did not believe in god. She never thought that her life could have changed so quickly. “Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, taught my benighted soul to understand, that there’s a god, that there’s a savior too:” She was not really god fearing before she came to America. She did not have a reason to believe that there was a God or to even look to God for peace. She was not in a time of need. History shows that when people are at their lowest they look towards God and religion as a way out of it. From the beginning