| In eighteenth Century, the North American colonies had a huge change, the slavetrade reached to flourish in1726, and in1850it reached a peak. The slavery had afurther development, especially in the Southern plantation, making the colony’economy to a thriving trend. In the middle of the eighteenth Century, the NorthAmerican colonies also been in stormy, the great awakening and Enlightenment madepeople’s thinking more openly, the colonial and the motherland’s relation turned intonervous, and the colonial required independence and freedom from the motherlandwhich went increasingly high. At the same time, more and more blacks were sold to thecolonial as slaves, causing a prevalent racial discrimination all over the country. Philliswas abducted by the colonial who was an Africa girl. Because of her intelligence atlearning,under the help of the hostess: Susanna, the hostess tried to make her as apoetess. On the basis of the favorable conditions outside world and her own efforts,Phillis got free at last, and she became the first black woman published a book of poetryat colonial, this unusual experience had produced a great sensation both the AtlanticStrait.This article are divided into three parts and the clue is that Phillis spent her enterlife fighting against the slavery. The first part mainly introduces the relationshipbetween Phillis and the slave trade and the slavery in eighteenth Century,on the basis offacts. It focuses on the slave trade and the slavery, the prosperity of that stimulate thenumber of American blacks transporting from Africa to the North American colonies,Phillis was stranded in such a situation, she was sold to the North American coloniesand became a slave losing her freedom, so she began her journey for freedom andfought against the slavery.This is the background paving the way for the later. Thesecond part, on the basis of Phillis’s poems, letters and other materials, discussingPhillis’s life in the colony.She was under the yoke of the slavery,but gradually growingup as an outstanding poetess, and receiving the celebrities’ attention at that time, notonly she published the poem “On a variety of topics in moral and Religious” in1773,but also visited the UK and meet many important people which caused a bigsensation. Based on the study of Phillis as a black woman through her own ability to getrid of the slavery, she continued to expand her influence to win social recognition, analysing the external factors and Phillis’s own efforts, which made her success. At thesame time, the article discusses that Phillis did not give up the pursuit of freedom andfight against the slavery rebellion throughout her life, whether in the superior livingconditions or the tragic circumstances after getting freedom. The third part introducesthe influence of this extraordinary woman, Phillis’ experience of fighting against theauthority system inspired the war of independence supporters, abolitionist andcontemporary blacks, people sponsored many ways to commemorate Phillis.This paper mainly researches personal opposition to the slavery during theeighteenth Century in North American colonial, demonstrating the incompatiblecontradiction between slaves and the slavery, and also denied that the slavery isconducive to the slaves acting as a "good system" which boasted by the white,indicating that the rebel of the slavery did not stop at the same it came out. Exceptingthe group escape, strikes and bloody struggle, there still exist milder revolt and personalfight, the slaves tried to get rid of the shackles of slavery in different ways,especiallyblack women who were the vulnerable group. The innovation of this paper is that bydiscussing Phillis Wheatley’s experience of fighting against the slavery proves that inthe early North America, although some slaves’ living conditions much better than thesouthern black slaves working in the plantation, but they never gave up the struggleagainst the slavery, and this paper give us a new point of view to explore slaves’ revoltof the slavery. |
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