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Review Of Phillis's Poem On Being Brought From Africa To America

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Phillis Ẃheatly’s poem, ¨ On Being Brought from Africa to America¨ challenges the individual rights because the colonist do not want the colored people to believe in God nor to be educated. Wheatley explains how the colonist do not think that the colored people should be part of the Christian world, they do not believe that colored people should be believing in God. Wheatley states, ¨ Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin´, and join th´angelic train.¨ As Wheatley states she wants to show the colonist that even colored people can believe in God. Wheatley placed ¨Christians¨ and ¨Negroes¨ together so it can be clear to the colonist that no matter what color skin tone you have you have the right to believe in God.
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