Phillis Wheatley's Letter To Reverend Samson Occom

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In this letter Phillis Wheatley is writing to Reverend Samson Occom, telling him that even though everyone thinks that African Americans have no human rights that god implanted the love of freedom in every human being.
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She says that god implanted the love of freedom in everyone hoping to make him understand that just because they are of a different color they are implanted with the love of freedom just like every other person. She uses the Israelites as an example because they were slaves and it is believed that they were led out of Egypt by Moses. She tells him that now years after the Israelites were slaves that the African Americans are the same as them and want freedom too.
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