Reading Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Alexandria
Read Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley. Challenging colonial hierarchies, 18-year-old Wheatley's radical poetry disrupted Enlightenment assumptions by proving that reason and intellect transcend race - a revelation that exposed the hypocrisies of those who claimed Black people lacked the capacity for complex thought while simultaneously fearing the power of their ideas.