Phillis Wheatley’s Fight against Slavery

Phillis Wheatley was a jewel of her era; the first African-American woman to publish a poem. I purchased it as a slave, but her life is far from being the majority of the 17th century African American. She was educated and deeply rooted in the belief of Christianity. From outsiders, her life may be seen as an adopted, not a slave of the Whitley family. But she did not forget her place of birth or the person she was not as lucky as herself. Whitley fought slavery in words with his education and the newly discovered spirituality (751).

Philith Whitley, a poet born in Senegal / Gambia in 1753, was taken to a slave ship in Boston, Massachusetts in 1761 and bought as a wife's private officer by John Whitley. Wheatleys educated Phillis, he soon learned Latin and Greek, and kept writing acclaimed verses. She published her first poetry in 1767 and published her first poem "Various Themes, Religious and Moral Poetry" in 1773. She was released from slavery and later struggled economically later, and Whitley could not find the second volume of the publisher. She passed away in Boston on December 5, 1784.

John Whitley's black servant Felipe Whitley, poet of Philis Wheatley Peters (1753 - 1784) from 1773 in Boston, John New England, said, "Various themes, religion, moral poetry Since then, the first book published by African-American writer Phillis Wheatley remains one of the most controversial but most famous people in African-American literature In Whitley's life science Thomas Jefferson, even the future US president Thomas Jefferson, is discussing her achievement for centuries later, scholars have been working on her poems and wider politics that influence her poetry and the African American liberty struggle And ethnic issues, but the African-American writers of any century, including Whitley's African descent America of the literary tradition of the people creation and does not contribute to the development.

The legacy of Phillis Wheatley is covered with a slavery veil of the 18th century. Her contribution to literature and abolition of slavery may also be anonymous. The scholars have never solved the problem of Whitley's loyalty associated with social problems of her era. Whitley's position in literature is complex and unique. Another African-American female poet mastered the art of classical lyrics of slavery and did not try to leave women in the suburbs of society.