The contention between racial reality and observation is most clearly and imaginatively exhibited in Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" when she uses such beautiful gadgets as incongruity, italics, and first-individual portrayal to express her unwillingness to be thrown into a moment fiddle part. So as to amplify the error between the whites' view of blacks and the truth, Wheatley guardedly talks about the great the whites have done in bringing blacks into the Christian world. It is not until the second 50% of the ballad, in any case, that Wheatley brings into play an understanding that runs counter to the imprudent peruser's impressions. In the finishing up four lines of the sonnet, Wheatley contends that blacks and whites are produced using a similar otherworldly material and that both can "be refin'd, and join th' saintly prepare" of salvation. …show more content…
This is the thing that Wheatley does in "On Being Brought from Africa to America." First, she demonstrates how life is seen by white enslavers and a considerable lot of the subjugated. At that point she proceeds onward to contend that in the last investigation both races have a similar potential and are one in their association with the same preeminent being who, as her subtext unveils, is partially blind while conceding