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Thank you We sneak Phillis wheatley who was she Eyelash

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So we're trying with phyllis wheatley who's an ex slaves

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who is the first first african american to publish a

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book of poems that's pretty sickening absolutely Although of course

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given the nature of the times she did all of

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this under the auspices of this white patron woman who

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endorsed her So we talked earlier about how mary rawlinson

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was endorsed by cotton mather allow that power she gained

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was actually through him phillis wheatley zina somewhere boat Where

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like because society has just adventure in such an amazing

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way she has to gain authority by getting a white

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woman to want to speak on her behalf and advocate

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for her the interesting thing about phyllis wheatley Is she

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more or less I think embraces that So her poems

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are about moving that she is a christian who like

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the white americans that surround her and that she understands

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neoclassical literature Jai references neo classical literature She loves it

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so she doesn't seem to feel add about needing to

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go through white people Teo tree what she wants and

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she generally wants to be like them Or at least

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she needs to prove To them that black people care

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and they have the same skills that they dio because

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that is used the biting his white people as justification

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for slavery rate So whites are saying like blacks are

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less intelligent they're incapable of learning Therefore it makes a

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lot of sun So we don't even get them through

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school right Where is she By showing that she's a

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classical education by showing that she has mastered these very

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new classical forms was demonstrating that black people have the

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same capacity to learn that white people dio And therefore

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that not allowing them to learn is a choice that

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reflects badly on white people instead of just the reality

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of the situation Where did wheatley receive her education What

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point is wheatley make to dismantle racist thought The general

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attitude of society toward african american slaves Teach me a

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