In a letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom, this figure strongly condemned slavery, comparing ministers who held slaves to the Ancient Egyptians. This author also wrote of a desire to "surpass the wind, and leave the rolling universe behind," implying that the titular figure has "pinions" in the poem "On Imagination." Imagination is further glorified in a poem addressed to the painter Scipio Moorhead, but this poet took on a more overtly political tone in poems like "On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson" and "To his Excellency General Washington." In a better known work, this poet asks "Christians" to remem
In a letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom, this figure strongly condemned slavery, comparing ministers who held slaves to the Ancient Egyptians. This author also wrote of a desire to "surpass the wind, and leave the rolling universe behind," implying that the titular figure has "pinions" in the poem "On Imagination." Imagination is further glorified in a poem addressed to the painter Scipio Moorhead, but this poet took on a more overtly political tone in poems like "On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson" and "To his Excellency General Washington." In a better known work, this poet asks "Christians" to remember that Africans can "join the angelic train," though her conversion to Christianity did not spare her a life of poverty and bondage in Boston. FTP name this poet who wrote the collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, and also wrote of her own experiences in "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
In a letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom, this figure strongly condemned slavery, comparing ministers who held slaves to the Ancient Egyptians.
Phillis Wheatley