Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health African) Treasury Series by the

African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press

must have a plurality over which to range—a plurality of diverse persons

In these stories we find a model for how we can all come home again

and diasporic frames through which race has been represented

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Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health African) Treasury Series by theThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American Revolution There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well.