Phillis Wheatley Analysis

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Walker, M. (2011). The defense of Phillis Wheatley, The Eighteenth Century, 52 (2), 235-239.
This article reviews John C.Shields's Phillis Wheatley's poetic of liberation and defends her as "an exemplar of the intellectual capabilities of enslaved Africans, and the foremother of the African-American literary tradition" (Walker, 2011, p.235). Walker demonstrates Wheatley's peculiar ability to voice her desire for liberation like no other one before, using On Being Brought From Africa to America as an example to show her style of writing, the very careful usage of words, and the hidden signs of her rebellious side against the society. The review unveils the obstacles Wheatley went through her entire life, not only as an African-American in a