Phillis Wheatley: Poems

What is the “strange Absurdity of their Conduct”? What is she referring to – who’s words and actions are so diametrically opposite.

  1. What is the “strange Absurdity of their Conduct”? What is she referring to – who’s words and actions are so diametrically opposite.
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The strange absurdity is compliance. The words and actions are those who actively support the state of slavery, as well as those who are against it but take no action to change things.

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Wheatley's letter to Reverend Samson Occum

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