Justin's Reviews > Poems of Phillis Wheatley

It's a shame Wheatley was so indoctrinated in certain ways, but yet you can still see that she has this sense of pride in herself and her fellow Africans/African Americans. Plus what she did just at a formal level is more impressive than any of her white peers when you factor in that she was literally kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to write in a foreign language. Show me one white poet who did that, I'll wait. I can't say Wheatley is radical, but there are some delicious nuggets in here for careful readers.