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War With The Indians By Phillis Wheatley Analysis

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Throughout America’s history, dating back as far as the earliest colonists, others have prevented individuals from proclaiming their natural born rights and forcing them into oppression. William Bradford’s excerpt from “War with the Indians” looks at the methods through which the dominant colonial culture was oppressive and stripped the Native American of their based natural rights. He writes “And those that first entered found sharp resistance from the enemy who both shot at and grappled with them…brought out fire and set them on fire…thereby more were burnt to death than was otherwise slain” (Bradford). From the arrival of Columbus, Native American tribes have been oppressed and denied their civil liberties. Their lands were invaded, taken and settled by the white …show more content…

The power in their colonial culture and the idea of utopianism ensured the oppression and marginalization of Native people. In a time in America’s history were oppression and the freedom of citizen was denied was when the enslavement of Africans became so common. From a poem written by Phillis Wheatley called “‘On Being Brought from African to American” she writes some powerful literature on the injustices all Africans faced, she says, “…One I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view out sable race with scornful eye, ‘their colour is a diabolic die…” (Wheatley). In a few short words she unravels the oppression that her race has to face, discussing that whites have come to understanding that blacks are related to be devil, because of their skin color is a diabolic die. As a slave all human rights were taken away, forced into bondage to serve a master until death. She further discusses how slaves were seen as, view our sable race with scornful eye. Slaves were seen as worthless inferior creations placed on this earth to serve the

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