John B

John B. Alexander High School- Loredo

ENGLISH 1302

Wheatly on Being brought back from Africa

1)According to Wheatly, what brought her out of Africa?

2.            What evidence does Wheatly provide that Africans may be redeemed?

3.            What lesson from the Bible does Wheatly say she has learned?

4.            Those who view Negroes with a “scornful eye” see their skin color by what adjective?

5.            Who is the explicit audience of this short poem?

6.            Wheatly makes one allusion to the Old Testament in the poem. To who in the Old Testament does Wheatly refer?

7.            What explicit assumption of Americans is this poem working actively to dispel?

8.            In what verse from is “On Being Brought from Africa to America” written?