The Influence Of Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

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In America, slavery started around 1619 when Africans began were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown Virginia. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was torn from her biological parents at the age of seven and sent to the United States aboard “Phillis” one of the numerous slave buildings which crossed the Atlantic Ocean at that time, in charge of slaves. How during the slave century, Phillis Wheatley has been the first prominent Black writer in the United States to publish a book and to start the African-American literary tradition, as well as the African-American women literary tradition? Wheatley had a huge impact on the intellectual elite. In fact, she was the very first African writer to publish a collection of poetry. This work marks the beginning of the Afro-American literature and the vast erudition of the author. Mani, Manimangai. "Racial Awareness in Phillis Wheatley’s Selected Poems." ILSHS International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences56 (2015): 74-79. Web.…show more content…
Wheatley is considered as the first black American writer. Mani highlights the fact that in order to disapprove to slavery Phillis Wheatley express her thought through important subject such as religion, political commentaries, supporting elegies and death and through her escapism into an imaginary world. Besides, Mani thesis is to say that Wheatley is the pioneer of the African American literary tradition. Mani points out the writing style of Wheatley. Indeed, Wheatley chooses in her work specific words mostly biblical word in order to camouflage her view on
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