Episode notes
In this episode, we read and discuss two poems from the great Phillis Wheatley. See how this early African American poet put to verse her evangelical spirituality and experience as a slave stolen from Africa in the eighteenth century. Enjoy!
On Virtue: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45466/on-virtue
Edwards connection: http://commonplace.online/article/vol-17-no-3-monescalchi/
On Being Brought from Africa to America: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
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Keywords
evangelicalphillis wheatley