Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom :: history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution /
There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolition...
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| Zusammenfassung: | There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to the proposed marriage--arranged by Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins--would have echoed the social mores of the time, particularly those for enslaved black women. However, due to her prodigious talents as a poet, Wheatley won her freedom a year prior to Hopkins' arrangement, allowing her to take her future into her own hands. G.J. Barker-Benfield considers Wheatley's story and Hopkins's plan in the broader context of the American Revolution. The ideals of the revolution motivated Hopkins and some of his contemporaries to propose freeing African slaves and thus address the "monstrous inconsistency" fundamental to the white slave owners leading the revolution. In so doing, they presented themselves as freedom fighters who resisted the threat of slavery at the hands of British tyranny. Wheatley challenged this inconsistency and, taking the revolutionaries' rhetoric seriously, called for liberty for all human hearts: women's and men's, blacks' and whites'. |
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| spelling | Barker-Benfield, G. J., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91002896 Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution / G.J. Barker-Benfield. New York : New York University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 8, 2018). Introduction -- Britain sends an African missionary to Africa -- Prospects of an American mission to Anomabu -- From Africa to America -- Wheatley gains Huntingdon's patronage -- The publication of Wheatley's Poems on various subjects, religious and moral -- Married in Africa or free in America -- Freedom and death. There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to the proposed marriage--arranged by Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins--would have echoed the social mores of the time, particularly those for enslaved black women. However, due to her prodigious talents as a poet, Wheatley won her freedom a year prior to Hopkins' arrangement, allowing her to take her future into her own hands. G.J. Barker-Benfield considers Wheatley's story and Hopkins's plan in the broader context of the American Revolution. The ideals of the revolution motivated Hopkins and some of his contemporaries to propose freeing African slaves and thus address the "monstrous inconsistency" fundamental to the white slave owners leading the revolution. In so doing, they presented themselves as freedom fighters who resisted the threat of slavery at the hands of British tyranny. Wheatley challenged this inconsistency and, taking the revolutionaries' rhetoric seriously, called for liberty for all human hearts: women's and men's, blacks' and whites'. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50016726 Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtmcyFH6G9GFHmpqwHmd African American women poets Biography. Poets, American Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography. Enslaved women United States Biography. Poétesses noires américaines Biographies. Poètes américains ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) Biographies. Femmes esclaves États-Unis Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry. bisacsh African American women poets fast Poets, American fast Poets, American Colonial period fast Enslaved women fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq 1600-1775 fast Biography https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019215 Biographies fast Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 Biographies. rvmgf has work: Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGp7fMPgYbwBVfrm4pCt4y https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1789440 Volltext |
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| title_full | Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution / G.J. Barker-Benfield. |
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| topic | Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50016726 Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtmcyFH6G9GFHmpqwHmd African American women poets Biography. Poets, American Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography. Enslaved women United States Biography. Poétesses noires américaines Biographies. Poètes américains ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) Biographies. Femmes esclaves États-Unis Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry. bisacsh African American women poets fast Poets, American fast Poets, American Colonial period fast Enslaved women fast |
| topic_facet | Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 African American women poets Biography. Poets, American Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography. Enslaved women United States Biography. Poétesses noires américaines Biographies. Poètes américains ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) Biographies. Femmes esclaves États-Unis Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry. African American women poets Poets, American Poets, American Colonial period Enslaved women United States Biography Biographies Biographies. |
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