Sarah Wentworth Morton's The African Chief

Sarah Wentworth Morton’s, “The African Chief” intensely illustrates the horrific event of the transatlantic slave trade. Sarah uses vivid imagery of inhumane conditions the African slaves had to endure, both mentally and physically merciless. “The flinty path-way drench’d in blood; He saw with cold and frenzied mind”(Morton 728), demonstrates a violent and destitute tone. Morton’s poem ends, “ Whose only refuge was the grave” (Morton 729) exemplifies through death was the only haven to freedom. Judith Sargant Murray’s, “The Equality of the Sexes” debates the beliefs that women to not have the same intellectual capacity as men. In the poem Murray illustrates: “Yet cannot I their sentiment imbibe
Who this distinction to the sex ascribe,