Phillis Wheatley

i feel her work shows the intellegent that Africans would have if the whites allowed them to become educated and ended slavery. she has great penmenship, and expresses her opinions openly. one poem i found interesting what To the university of Cambridge in New England. She is telling the audience how to live life. Most people become shocked at this because she was a black women; however, her higher status and christian faith allowed to to state her feelings openly. She starts off by talking in a physical sense and then leads to the spiritual. Like stated in class, Wheatley knows how to appeal to her audience and make them accept her. there were many critics i bet at the time of her writing just because she was a black women. they didnt feel she should be able to write and publish her works. I think her writing gives the white people of the time knowledge of how educated people of a difference race could become if given the chance.