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In this episode, we read and discuss two poems from the great Phillis Wheatley. See how this early African American poet put to verse her evangelical spirituality and experience as a slave stolen from Africa in the eighteenth century. Enjoy!

On Virtue: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45466/on-virtue

Edwards connection: http://commonplace.online/article/vol-17-no-3-monescalchi/

On Being Brought from Africa to America: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america

First Wheatley episode: https://youtu.be/ZZPWSwP9pCI

Lemuel Haynes episode: https://youtu.be/QaAaIBzojxo

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