Premium Content The Public Consciousness of Phillis Wheatley
By Kathleen M Dooley - October 01, 2005
"I was a kind of bastard of the West... I might search in them in vain for any reflection of myself... At the time I saw that I had no other heritage which I could possibly hope to use... I would have to appropriate those white centuries, I would have to make them mine... I would have to accept my special attitude, my special place in this scheme…
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