Phyllis Wheatley

Wheatley was a black author who came from Africa as a slave and resides in New England. She read a lot of Alexander Pope's works and there she came to grasp diversification patterns in her works. Freedom and captivity were some of her main theme to write about as she was a slave. She was not published in the States because it was not right for a black women to be a published writer during that time. In "His Excellency General Washington", she is on the side of Washington in that she will support him in the fight against the British who are trying to take the colonies during the Revolution. I think that the main point is that because she was a former slave, she does not want to be "enslaved" by the British government and how that relates to freedom and captivity.