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My favorite reading is the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley and her biography. I found her life to be extraordinary. She lived a tragic life, but was successful in her work and kept a strong faith in God. She was brought to America at a very young age as a slave. I cannot imagine how frightened she must have been leaving her homeland and being taken by strangers. However, in her poem she came to reconcile with it and thought that it was by the grace of God that she was brought to America. Wheatley had three children, two died because of health issues and she and the third one died together still living in poverty. Even with the ups and downs she went through in life, she was determined to make a difference
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