Outline  Slavery expanded rather than grew

Axel Lopez
 Between 1790 to 1860 people
dispersed acrros the expansion of
the US

Phillis Wheatly And a  Slave population rw over time

Summary of On Being unlike the free population in the

Brought From Africa to north

America  Dhow so? Different dynamic

History

 Showed proficiency in learning, at age 14 published

her first poem in a local newspaper and went on to
publish books and pamphlets.

 Abducted from her home in Africa at age of 7 in 1753

and taken by ship to America.

 1773 Poems of Various Subjects, religious and Moral

Published. Where the title if this paragraph was
published.

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-Dignified approach to the whole situation, Christianity plays a

roll.

-Whilst the horrors on the slave ships were widely known, there is
no mention literary of the situation even though it is expressed
through the compassion of God.

-Surviving depended on luck, ‘divine providence, intervention’

Benighted - taken over by moral and intellectual

darkness, ignorance
redemption – being sved from sin and evil

Lines 5-8

First lines focused on the restrospective experience of the speaker.

Throu religion she can now that she has been saved, by
converting, to this new religion.