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A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley
In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson OccomMore about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philliswheatley #deliverance #freedom #humannature #imperative #instinct #liberty #oppression #slavery
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Although I'm almost always working on multiple books at once, my currently-reading list is a bit crazy right now. Not including more general reading for class prep and research, I'm currently working on...
- I resumed David Waldstreicher's *The Odyssey of #PhillisWheatley* after some time away due to work. So glad I didn't let it fall off completely -- it's fantastic.
- I started #MollFlanders a week or two ago. Although familiar with its story and historical/literary influence, have never read it.
- I've fallen headfirst into the Library of America #AldoLeopold volume.
- And some skimming for class prep turned into a full read of Kathryn Olivarius's award-winning *Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom*.
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While reading these chapters, particularly the latter, I thought of Catherine Brekus's *Sarah Osborn's World*. In telling Osborn's story, Brekus details the many channels and forms that the religious work of early American women took (in part because formal access to the pulpit is mostly off-limits to them).
Thinking of Phillis Wheatley as doing *evangelical* work as a young poet/a young woman/a young enslaved person invites us to think of Phillis Wheatley as working in the tradition of female preaching, working in the same world, in fact as Sarah Osborn -- whose own relationship to race and slavery was of course quite complicated.
I am looking forward to thinking more about these two works together alongside each other.
#SarahOsborn
#FemalePreaching
#GreatAwakening #PhillisWheatley2/2
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David Waldstreicher - The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).
Started this last night, really enjoying it. The project Waldstreicher pursues here -- that of deeply contextualizing Wheatley's life and writings and understanding her as actively engaged with the 18th-century Atlantic world(s) -- feels like a minor revelation already, and I'm not that far in! More to come.
(I am trying something new with sharing passages and thoughts on my reading: a "root" post for the book/volume, commentary and shared passages will be added as replies. So additional commentary will be added to this post as a series of replies. For those who are uninterested, this may make it easier to mute a single conversation and unclutter your timeline.)
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#MikeMiles is the #Houston #superintendent turning #libraries into #detention centers. "[The TEA] would place Miles @ the helm of the state's largest school district after years of poor academic outcomes at a single campus in the district, #PhillisWheatley High School." The awful irony is too much to bear (Wheatley). & "He wanted to forbid school board members from searching for a new superintendent while he finished out his last year & wanted access to a retention bonus. https://abc13.com/houston-isd-state-takeover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston
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@oh_that_courtney. #MikeMiles is his name. "The TEA announced earlier this month it would place Miles @ the helm of the state's largest school district after years of poor academic outcomes @ a single campus in the district, Phillis Wheatley High School." Having #Miles oversee (right word) #PhillisWheatley HS is rich. "He wanted to forbid school board members from searching for a new superintendent while he finished out his last year & wanted access to a retention bonus. https://abc13.com/houston-isd-state-takeover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston
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Phillis Wheatley: we shouldn’t hesitate to call this #poet a genius. #PhillisWheatley #poetry
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230220-phillis-wheatley-the-unsung-black-poet-who-shaped-the-us
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“In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”
#PhillisWheatley #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #poetry -
CW: Esclavage Phillis Wheatley États Unis 18e s.
[Via Écrire contre l'oubli]
"Née au #Sénégal, elle s'appelait Phillis, du nom du bateau qui l'avait amenée et Wheatley, qui était le nom du marchand qui l'avait achetée.
Arrivée à #Boston, les négriers la mettent en vente :
Elle est reniflée, tâtée, nue, par de nombreuses mains.
"Elle a sept ans !... elle sera une bonne jument !"
A treize ans, elle écrivait déjà des poèmes dans une langue qui n'est pas la sienne et personne ne croyait qu'elle en était l'auteur.
A l'âge de vingt ans, Phillis a été interrogée par un tribunal de dix-huit hommes éclairés en robes et perruques.
Elle devait réciter des textes de Virgile, Milton et quelques passages de la bible et elle devait aussi jurer que les poèmes qu'elle avait écrits, n'étaient pas des plagias.
Jusqu'à ce que le tribunal accepte qu'il s'agissait d'une femme, qu'elle était noire, #esclave et aussi poète !...
#PhillisWheatley, fut la première écrivaine #AfroAméricaine à publier un livre aux États-Unis."
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
#poésie #esclavage