In Phillis Wheatley’s poem On Being Brought from Africa to America she talked about how thankful she is to have been brought to America and to have been taken from her “Pagan” land and taught Christian values. Compared to what we have read about other slave this seems strange. She doesn’t lament about being taken away from her family and her homeland or striped of the beliefs her people had followed for generations. Could this be due in part to the young age at which she was enslaved? Was she truly influenced by the proslavery talk around her? She doesn’t seem very resentful or too upset by her position as a slave, granted her slavery was much more relaxed then most.

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