Earl of Dartmouth

fast learner when it came to education. She grew up to be the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Wheatley wrote a poem that talked about gaining freedom entitled: To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth. Phillis makes a personal appeal to the earl of Dartmouth hoping he will agree with the abrogation of slavery. Showing that she thinks America should be free, Phillis says “No more, America, in mournful strain” (Wheatley 152). Readers can comprehend Phillis dislikes…

America’s First Women Poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley defied the strict social norms in their days. Being a woman writer in a patriarchal society sure was a huge obstacle to overcome. Women at the time were expected to be housewives and child bearers. With the education and privileges afforded to them both Bradstreet and Wheatley, were able to write and publish works that in a time that suppressed creativity in women. This showed people at that time that neither race nor gender is a…

Many key events took place during the Jim Crow era. In evaluating these events and their effects it is helpful to first understand what Jim Crow laws are. In the 1830s a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white entertainer performed a character in blackface. When in character Rice performed a popular act with dancing and singing as a slave, named Jim Crow. In 1890 Jim Crow laws were implemented. Under these laws many were victim to segregation between Caucasian and African Americans. This took…

During the American Revolution many slaves were denied the opportunity to learn to read and write. One of the Early American authors, Phillis Wheatley, was able to use her literacy to write many poems and well-known pieces of literature even though she was a slave. Purchased by the Wheatley family at a young age, Wheatley was able to become educated and eventually start writing her own poetry. She had many influences and viewpoints that were shown in her writing, such as the influence of her…

The article immediately begins with a 1963 quote from Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. He expresses his concerns about how the advances in technology pose a danger to privacy (Carr 528). Carr shows that if a Supreme Court Chief Justice, who held such authority, was concerned about privacy reduction in 1963, then people should…

“I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day…

Due to the different resources available in the colonies along with the European’s primary goal, the patterns of interactions greatly varied between the European settlers and the Native Americans depending on the location. In New York, the interactions centered primarily around trading war products and fur while, in New Spain, the settlers mainly focused on spreading their religion and starting missions. The interactions in the two regions developed in similar way since every group wanted to…

Phillis Wheatley was an African American woman born in West Africa in the year of 1753. Enslaved and brought to America at only age 8, Phillis Wheatley served as a house slave to the Wheatley family in Boston. After converting her to Christianity, the Wheatley family gave Phillis a formal education, and when Phillis demonstrated a talent for poetry the Wheatley family encouraged her artistically. Phillis Wheatley’s poems mainly dealt with her Christian faith and won her fame in both America and…

Christian elegies, her short and racially conscious poem “Thoughts on Being Brought from Africa to America,” and other Biblical and naturistic poems. Within her collection, she also included two pieces of flattery to an English captain and the Earl of Dartmouth, which was common among poets who were in the search of patrons. At this time, Phillis Wheatley was highly celebrated, and had a following of well-known people, including Benjamin Franklin. Her most well-known poem “On Being Brought from…