Phillis Wheatley

After reading Phillis Wheatley's many poems about how she came to America via slavery, it amazes me just how positively she viewed the experience despite the sinful nature of it all. For one, her poem "On being brought from Africa to America" indicated that she, indeed, was bought out of her native country by force. Even back then, that would seem like a horrific experience for anybody who most likely did not anticipate anything to occur as such. Usually, people would hate an experience like this; she did not. The way I see it, which many others may not, is that it was all a part of God's plan. You see, I like to think of it as God's way of using another person's sinful nature to shine through to somebody in need and bring them to Him. If it worked for Wheatley -- and even Rowlandson -- it could somehow work the same way with anybody regardless of who they are.