Society & Culture
By commandeering accepted poetic form and rhetoric, Phillis Wheatley countered every expectation of what it was to be an enslaved black woman in 18th century North America. She embodied the strength, wit, and cunning of all those oppressed individuals who manage to fight their way to prominence despite all odds, and laid the groundwork for an articulate, passionate form of activism that continues to this day. * Official Canon Fire Website: http://www.canonfirepodcast.com/ Banner designed by Brittany Baril. Theme song by Alan Hardison, mastered by Nick Cameron. * Content warnings: rape mention