Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom Leah M. Popple *Organized around theories rather than

*Organized around theories rather than individual theorists

Dotan Nitzberg

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" -Laura Maslin Bradley

Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom Leah M. Popple *Organized around theories rather thanThe 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.