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-bein ...