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050	0	4	_aPS866 _b.P455 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBarker-Benfield, G. J., _e1
245	1	0	_aPhillis Wheatley chooses freedom : _bhistory, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution / _cG.J. Barker-Benfield.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. Britain Sends an African Missionary to Africa; 2. Prospects of an American Mission to Anomabu; 3. From Africa to America; 4. Wheatley Gains Huntingdon's Patronage; 5. The Publication of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; 6. Married in Africa or Free in America; 7. Freedom and Death; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author
520	0		_aThere 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. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to the proposed marriage - arranged by Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins - would have echoed the social mores of the time, particularly those for enslaved black women. However, due to her prodigious talents as a poet, Wheatley won her freedom a year prior to Hopkins'arrangement, allowing her to take her future into her own hands. G.J. Barker-Benfield considers Wheatley's story and Hopkins's plan in the broader context of the American Revolution. The ideals of the revolution motivated Hopkins and some of his contemporaries to propose freeing African slaves and thus address the 2monstrous inconsistency3 fundamental to the white slave owners leading the revolution. In so doing, they presented themselves as freedom fighters who resisted the threat of slavery at the hands of British tyranny. Wheatley challenged this inconsistency and, taking the revolutionaries' rhetoric seriously, called for liberty for all human hearts: women's and men's, blacks'and whites'.
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650		0	_aAfrican American women poets _vBiography.
650		0	_aEnslaved women _zUnited States _vBiography.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1789440&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell