Phillis Wheatley just blows me away! I cannot believe under all her circumstances, she published such phenomenal poetry. She was a female African American slave and was only 19 years old when her book of poetry was published! I am 20 and haven't even written a poem good enough to be published into a magazine, let alone a whole book of poems. He circumstances under which she wrote her poems is just amazing. We are still reading her poems 300 years later. What a feat!
Another thing that is amazing is about her is her attitude. Her poetry is not bitter but is optimistic. She is making the best out of her situation. Even though she was captured and taken from her homeland she rejoices about it. If it wasn't for her being captured she would never have found Christ. How inspiring to hear her story. She takes the bad things that happened to her in life and turns them into good. She is just an amazing woman!
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