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Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom Letter to John Adams O John Adams Writers of the Revolution Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom by Phillis Wheatleyatley READING 8 Analyze how the style, tone, and diction of a text advance the author’s purpose Letter too John AAdamsdams and perspective or stance. RC– 11(A) Reflect on understanding to by Abigail Adamsms monitor comprehension. Meet the Authors Phillis Phillis Wheatley was the first African- subjects. While in Londondon in 1773 to Wheatley American poet to be published. publish her book of poetry, Wheatley was c. 1753–1784 Moreover, her unusual life is the stuff the toast of society, which included many that movies are made of. Kidnapped at nobles and dignitaries and the visiting age seven in West Africa, she was sold American patriot Ben Franklin. to the prosperous Wheatley family at a Life as a Free Black Woman By 1778, Boston slave auction. Within 16 months, Wheatley had gained her freedom and she had mastered English and could read married a free black man. Their life the Bible. She went on to learn Latin and together was a losing struggle against Greek well enough to read the classics. poverty, however, for in many respects Startling Success Story Encouraged living as a free black in a colonial city by the Wheatley family, Phillis started was as hard as being a slave. In late 1779, writing poetry as a teenager; She earned Wheatley tried to get a second book fame in the colonies and England when of her poems published, but war-torn, newspapers began publishing her poems, financially strapped Boston had lost most of them on moral and religious interest in her. Abigail Adams Abigail Adams was the wife of the second ence, Abigail managed the household and 1744–1818 U.S. president, John Adams, and mother farm as well as John’s business affairs. of the sixth, John Quincy Adams. But she An Early Feminist? Because of her support is equally well-known for her outspoken for women’s education and her acute opinions as expressed in thousands of awareness of men’s “absolute power,” personal letters. many have championed Abigail Adams Intelligent and Competent The daughter as an early advocate of women’s rights. of a wealthy minister, young Abigail read However, although her thinking was extensively in her father’s library. After clearly advanced for her time—she also marrying John Adams, she moved to a favored the abolition of slavery—she held farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. As John quite conventional views about a woman’s became increasingly involved in colonial subordinate role in society. politics and the struggle for independ- Author Online Go to thinkcentral.com. KEYWORD: HML11-258 258 TX_L11PE-u01s44-brLetters.indd 258 9/9/09 9:21:29 AM LITERARy analYsis: diction DicTION is a writer’s choice of wORds. Diction includes both VOCABULARy (wORDS) and SYNtax (ARRANGEMENT Of WORDS). Diction can be formal or informal, common or technical, abstrACT or Who gets to CONCRETE. Note the formal diction in this eXCERPT from the letter written by Abigail Adams: make the How many are the solitary hours I spend, ruminating upon the rules? past, and anTICIPAting the future, whilst you, oVERwhelmed with the cares of state, haVe but a fEw moments you can deVote To Those in authority make the rules for ANy individual. others—whether it’s in the halls of CONGRess or the classroom. The authors Writers oFten cOMMUNICAte Tone, or attitude TOWARd a subject, Of these TWo letters, while agreeing THRough their diction. As you read the letters, notice wORds and WHOLEHEARtedly with the paTRIOT cause, PHRases THAT rEVeal each writer’s attitude TOWARd the issues of still fELT lefT out of the prOCess and the LIBERty and freedom. benefits of the American REVolution. READIng sTRATEGY: reading primARy souRCES DISCUSS People TODAy haVe not only Primary sourCES are materials written or made by people who MORe freedom than people did in Took parT in or witnessed the eVENts porTRAYed. These sourCes Colonial times but also more wAYs To can prOvide unique insights on a subjecT. To gET the most out CHANGe the laWs. Think of aT least THRee Of a primary sourCe, consider the fOLLOwing: SITUAtions in which rules dirECtly impacT Your lifE. Then for each situation, • Who was the writer? The age, naTIONALITY, and social class discuss wAYs THAT are aVailable To Of the writer can influence the poinT of vieW. CHANGe or modify those rules. • WhaT is the form of the document: letter, diarY, speech? How MIGHT the form haVe afFECted the cONTENt? • When and where was it written? The time and place of a PRIMARy sourCe’s writing can prOvide clues To the culture and HISTORy of the period. • Who is the intended audience? In a privAte letter To a loVed one, a writer mighT vOICe THOUGHts and feelings more freely than in an open letter To a public audiencE. For help analyzing the letters of WheaTLEy and Adams, Complete a charT such as the one shown here as you rEAD each letter. Writer: Form: When and Where Written: Intended Purpose/Audience: COMPLETe tHe acTIVITIEs in yOUr READER/WRITER NOTEBOOK. 259 etter TO THE Reverend Samson Occom Phillis WheaTLEY BACKGROUNd The REVERend Samson OcCom was a Mohegan Indian who became a minister after cONVERting To Christianity. In a letter To Phillis WheaTLEY, he had criticizED some of his fELLOw ministers for owning slaVes. WheaTLEy’s response To her friend, daTED FEBRUARy 11, 1774, was later published in colonial neWspapers. Reverend and honored sir, I have this day received your obliging kind epistle, and am greatly satisfied with Analyze Visuals your reasons respecting the negroes, and think highly reasonable what you offer This image shoWs a in vindication of their natural rights: Those that invade them cannot be insensible SLAVe auction in New Amsterdam (New York). that the divine light is chasing away the thick darkness which broods over the WhaT does this tell you 1 land of Africa; and the chaos which has reigned so long, is converting into ABOUT slaVERy in colonial beautiful order, and reveals more and more clearly the glorious dispensation of America? civil and religious liberty, which are so inseparably united, that there is little or no enjoyment of one without the other: Otherwise, perhaps, the Israelites had been less solicitous for their freedom from Egyptian slavery;2 I do not say they would 10 have been contented without it, by no means; for in every human breast God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient A A $)#4)/. of oppression, and pants for deliverance; and by the leave of our modern Describe WheaTLEy’s Egyptians3 I will assert, that the same principle lives in us. God grant deliverance DICTION in lines 1–11. How MIGHT her wAy of writing in his own way and time, and get him honor upon all those whose avarice impels HAVe struck white readers them to countenance and help forward the calamities of their fellow creatures. AT the time? This I desire not for their hurt, but to convince them of the strange absurdity of their conduct, whose words and actions are so diametrically opposite. How Language Coach well the cry for liberty, and the reverse disposition for the exercise of oppressive WORd Definitions power over others agree—I humbly think it does not require the penetration4 of a !BSURDITY (line 16) means 20 philosopher to determine.— “unrEASONABLENESS,” “illogicality,” or “STUPIDITY.” WheaTLEy is SAying THAT slaVe owners ARe saying one thing and doing another. How 1. insensible . the land of Africa: unaWARe THAT Christianity is spreading THROUGHOUT Africa. do their actions cONFLICT 2. Israelites . EGyptian slaVERY: a biblical allusion To the Israelites who wERe led out of EGYPT by Moses. with their wORds? 3. modern EGyptians: the owners of African slaVes. 4. PENETRAtion: understanding; insighT. First Slave Auction in New Amsterdam, 1655. 260 unit 1: early american writing The Granger Collection, New York. etter TO John Adams Abigail Adams BACKGROUNd In March of 1776, while John Adams was in Philadelphia with other DELEGAtes drAFting a code of laWs for the new independenT cOUNTRY, Abigail wrote a letter asking him To “remember the ladies” in the new laWs: “Be more gENERous and FAVORable To them than your ancESTors. Do not put such unlimited poWer inTo the hands of husbands.” John’s response was To laugh and remark, “You are so saucy.” The fOLLOwing is the neXT letter she senT To him. Braintree, 7, May, 1776 How many are the solitary hours I spend, ruminating upon the past, and Analyze Visuals anticipating the future, whilst you, overwhelmed with the cares of state, have These pastel porTRaits oF but a few moments you can devote to any individual. All domestic pleasures and Abigail and John Adams WERe done in 1766, about enjoyments are absorbed in the great and important duty you owe your country, TWo years after THEIR “for our country is, as it were, a secondary god, and the first and greatest parent. MARRIAGE. How do THESE It is to be preferred to parents, wives, children, friends, and all things, the gods PORTRaits cOMPARe with only excepted; for, if our country perishes, it is as impossible to save an individual, those THAT mighT be done as to preserve one of the fingers of a mortified hand.” Thus do I suppress every TODAy of a young couple? wish, and silence every murmur, acquiescing in a painful separation from the 10 companion of my youth, and the friend of my heart. B B 02)-!2Y SOU2#%3 I believe ’t is near ten days since I wrote you a line.
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