Phyllis Wheatley: A Brief Biography

Did you know that escaped slaves would travel over 300 miles just to go from the south to Canada? Harriet Tubman was lots of different things she was a spy, she was a nurse and caretaker. But I believe her biggest achievement was the underground railroad which help slaves travel to Canada from the South. The Fugitive Slave act was put in place and slaves would be returned to their slave masters and depending on what they did, they could get anything from beaten to tortured to killed. Harriet escaped her slave master so it was very risky for her to be in the US. I believe the underground railroad was her greatest achievement because of her time spent, the risk and the number of people she helped.

Harriet Tubman was a slave in the west. She didn’t know when she was born. At the age of six she started slavery. The line between freedom and slavery was hazy for Tubman and her family. Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben was freed from slavery at the age of 45, stipulated in the will of a previous owner. None the less. Ben had few options but to continue working as a timber estimator and foreman for his former owner. Although similar manumission stipulation applied to rit and her children. The family chose not to free them despite his free slaves, Ben had the power to challenge their decision.

Harriet Tubman spent most of her life trying to help slaves. She was a slave herself, she was born in Dorchester Country, Maryland in the year 1822. She started working at a very young age, by the age of 5 she was already doing child care and consequently by 12 she was doing field work and hauling logs, as she got older the job got harder. When she turned 26 Harriet decided to make a life-changing decision when her master died, she decided to abscond. She married a free black man. When she decamped, she spent 10 years helping the underground railroad, spent a day in Combahee River Raid, ---- years in Nursing 54th Mass, and spent most of her life, 50 years of it, care-giving. So, what was Harriet's greatest achievement? Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievement was the Underground Railroad while her other accomplishments were significant.

Prior to reading Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, I anticipated I would be reading about a woman in slavery with an unhappy past. I did not expect her story to end in a positive way. My expectations were to read of a woman bound in slavery that wrote memoirs of her saddened life and that life would continue until the day she died. I expected her to leave the home of a master and possibly become a maid or cook in the White House. I did not envision her becoming as successful as she did, her story far exceeded my expectations. Elizabeth Keckley's narrative had a positive outcome, once she was able to buy her freedom as well as her son's. She moved North and became popular

How was it like to be an African American writer in the 1800s? Mary Ann Shadd Cary reveals just how hard it was to get her words out. On March 25, 1854, an editorial of hers appeared on the “Provincial Freeman” called “Why Establish This Paper?”. Mary Ann discusses the necessity of her newspaper by using rhetorical strategies such as personification, alliteration, and appealing to the readers pathos to establish her claim of freedom of speech

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. She had a hard early life. She escaped from slavery to become an abolonist for slavery. Lastly, her later life wasn’t very difficult.

Phillis Wheatley was an American poet, considered as the first important black writer in the United States. Brought from Africa in 1761, she began writing on her experiences and views on being a slave, focusing on religious and political themes. Bringing her personal beliefs and activism into many pieces of her work, both served as important themes throughout her literature. “On Being Brought from Africa to America” described the positivity of being an American slave while it brought her to Christianity. The poems of Phillis Wheatley display a classical quality and restrained emotion while dealing with pietistic Christian sentiments. In many ways Wheatley used classical mythology and ancient history as allusions, including many references to the muses as inspiring her poetry. Many of her work described her attitude towards her condition of enslavement both coming from Africa to America, and the culture that considered her color so negatively.

Despite Phillis Wheatley being an African American former slave in the 1760's, Phillis managed to overcome unimaginable obstacles that and become a successful poet. Around the age of seven Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and was sold into slavery to the Wheatley's. Unlike many white slave owners the Wheatleys cared deeply for Phillis, so they decided to teach her how to read and write, which was illegal during this time. Phillis Wheatley played a very vital role in American history, despite being sold into slavery Phillis manage to overcome all obstacles and break down barriers to become the well known astounding poet she is today.

Before slavery was abolished it was uncommon for African-Americans to read and write, much less for a slave to become a published writer. It was even more uncommon for the writer to be female. But neither of those things stopped Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley is born a slave in Africa and brought over on a ship called the Phillis which is her namesake. She is also given her slave owners’ last name. The Wheatley’s are good people and give Phillis an education which is almost unheard of because she is a female slave. She quickly learns English and begins writing. In her poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” Wheatley says, “‘Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land” and this line tells the reader that the author knows that she is blessed when she is brought over to become as a slave (1).

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, born on September 24, 1825, was a leading African American poet, author, teacher and political activist. Although she was born to “free” parents in Baltimore, Maryland, she still experienced her share of hardships. She lost her mother at the tender age of three, was raised by her aunt and uncle, and fully employed by thirteen. Though all odds seemed against her, she triumphed over her obstacles, publishing her first book of poetry at the of age twenty and her first novel at the age of sixty-seven. Outside of writing books, she was a civil rights leader and a public speaker in the Anti-Slavery Society. She became widely recognized for her speech, “Education and the Elevation of the Colored Race”, participated in the underground railroad (helping slaves escape to Canada), and fought African American’s and women’s rights. Harper is a cofounder/ vice president of the National Association of Colored Women is known as the, “Mother of African American Journalism” and. Decades after her passing (February 22,1911),

Frances Harper was one of the most prominent African American poets during this time period. Frances Harper was not only important for her work as a poet but also for her work she did in helping with the Underground Railroad. Frances Harper worked directly with slave fugitives proving that she was going to do what it takes to help those people. Frances Harper’s second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects I think helps make her a prominent writer. The book includes the poems “Eliza Harris” and “The Slave Auction” that attack slavery directly. A short story in the book called “The Colored People in America” really stands out to me due to the fact that Harper is calling for black intellectual achievement. Harper encouraged people to use their

In the stories “Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad,” and “The Hunger Games,” some of the characters convey the qualities of a positive role model. Three specific qualities a positive role model should exhibit are compassion, courage, and selflessness. Although a positive role model can display many different and unique qualities, three qualities are essential to a positive role model; therefore, courage, compassion. and selflessness are qualities that help build a positive role model.

Phillis Wheatley is a black, African slave, female poet, and then Christian American (Acton/ American Literature). The life of Phillis is attractive, some painful and some pleasant (poetry foundation). At that time, black skin people cannot be educated while she was American Christian and educated. Wheatley was a model of all black skin people or those were persecuted (Acton/ American Literature). She is the owner of the first published poems book in the colonies in 1773 after brought her from Africa to America; by that Wheatley was the first slave and third American woman do that (Biography). Indeed, Phillis is not her real name, but it is the ship 's name which carried her to Boston; she used it until she died. Wheatley did not only change

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born a slave in 1862 but not for long because of the Emancipation Proclamation. Ida and her family were decreed free by the Union. Wells-t filled a lawsuit against a train car company in Memphis for unfair treatment. She was in Memphis where she first started to fight for racial and gender justice. She has thrown off a first-class train to Nashville, regardless of having a ticket. Wells was outraged when the conductor ordered her to move to the African American section. Wells refused and was removed from the train. This injustice led her to launch her career in journalism and write about the issues of race and politics in the South. Ida Wells became an African American journalist and activist who documented the

“The heartbroken mother was to be separated from her little boy for the rest of her life” - Derick Bingham. This was what happened to many mothers and their children before slavery was put an end to. A man fought for the freedom of these slaves. He’s name was William Wilberforce.