The Great Earl Phills Wheatley Analysis

Phillis Wheatley a former slave turned abolitionist did not find a balance between preserving individual rights and forming a strong union. By voicing her problems to the great earl of Dartmouth, she hoped to obtain his aid in removing slavery from the colonies in an non-violent effort. The Great Earl was known to be a fan of Phillis’s poems he adored her exceptional writing. Phillis hoped the earl shared the same ideologies on freedom, so she wrote a personal appeal hoping to get support from the great earl. While doing this the preservation of individual rights was non-existent, while the forming of a strong union was being ostracized by the colonist which in turn shown a substantial imbalance between the thoughts of colonist on the topic of their freedom and rights to that of the slaves. The colonist held the double standard that they deserve to be free from Britain rule, but owned slaves and treated them in a worse fashion. This internal turmoil could’ve been solved by coming to a compromise over Britain’s treatment of the colonist being identical to the colonist treatment of slaves and giving each party the same rights and freedoms.
Philip Freneau however found balance, by migrating to the vacant lawless lands in the western part of the country he can mold the areas more suitable to his …show more content…
stated in lines 7-9 of The Declaration of Independence supports the fact the Declaration of Independence failed to preserve individual rights, because with slavery being prominent at the time and slave owners viewing slaves as property or non-human devalued slaves and contradicted the fact that all men are created equal. Written by Thomas Jefferson and other individuals under the same doctrine favored a strong union instead of the preservation of individual