Phillis Wheatley's On Being Brought From Africa To America

“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given,”- Malcolm X. He is saying that slavery took away who you were, and all of your basic rights, and political writing was one of the ways of getting it back. In African-American history, literature has been used in many different ways, one of the most common ways was political writing. Different writers have used their writing in many ways, some talking about their better than average experience, and some about their average and terrible experience. All of them had some things in common, but still very distinctive experiences. In this
In the poem she says, “Taught my benighted soul to understand...Their colour is a diabolic die." She talks a lot about how she got to be raised in a good family, she got to learn how to read and write, she got to live in safe conditions, and best of all she didn’t have to work in fields day after day. Although her time as a slave was great compared to many slaves, she still learned that African-Americans were the “diabolic die” or in other words, evil. Wheatley’s writing wasn’t necessarily intended to be used in a political way, she wrote because she wanted to, and it was the only way she could make money, but it was later used in favor of slavery. If Wheatley was here today she probably wouldn’t want it being used that