bestoftheday.best
photo profile bestoftheday.best 449 Posts
statut bestoftheday.best Certified
Biography
Best of the Day
Watch Video
Share
August 17, 2022

Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers.

-

In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers. Its verses praised the burgeoning revolution, invoking the goddess of their new nation to aid the general’s cause. But this ode to liberty wasn’t written by some aloof aristocratic admirer. Its author was a young enslaved Black woman. Charita Gainey details the works of poet Phillis Wheatley.

Lesson by Charita Gainey, directed by Gavin Edwards, Movult.

Support The Non-Profit Mission
------------
Support on Patreon: bit.ly/TEDEdPatreon
Check out the merch: bit.ly/TEDEDShop
------------

Connect With Us
------------
Sign up for the newsletter: bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter
Follow on Facebook: bit.ly/TEDEdFacebook
Find on Twitter: bit.ly/TEDEdTwitter
Peep on Instagram: bit.ly/TEDEdInstagram
------------

Keep Learning
------------
View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/how-phillis-wheatley-captured-the-attention-of-the-world-charita-gainey
Dig deeper with additional resources: ed.ted.com/lessons/how-phillis-wheatley-captured-the-attention-of-the-world-charita-gainey#digdeeper

Animator's website: movult.com
Music: wonderboyaudio.com
------------

Thank you so much to the patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Michel-Ange Hortegat, Enes Kirimi, Amaury BISIAUX, ND, Samyogita Hardikar, Vanessa Graulich, Vandana Gunwani, Abdulmohsin Almadi, AJ Lyon, Geoffrey Bultitude, Mi Mi, Thomas Rothert, Brian Elieson, Oge O, Weronika Falkowska, Nevin Spoljaric, Sid Chanpuriya, Anoop Varghese, David Yastremski, Noah Webb, Roberto Chena, Oliver Koo, Luke Pisano, Andrea Gordon, Aleksandar Donev, Nicole Klau Ibarra, Jesse Lira, Ezekiel Raui, Petr Vacek, Dennis, Olivia Fu, Kari Teffeau, Cindy Lai, Rajath Durgada Manjunath, Dan Nguyen, Chin Beng Tan, Tom Boman, Karen Warner, Iryna Panasiuk, Aaron Torres, Eric Braun, Sonja Worzewski, Michael Clement, Adam Berry, Ghaith Tarawneh, Nathan Milford, Tomas Beckett, Alice Ice, Eric Berman and Kurt Paolo Sevillano.

#philliswheatley #georgewashington #colonialamerica #colonialpoets #georgewhitefield #elegy #poetry #colonialpoetry #poemsonvarioussubjectsreligiousandmoral #poems #ahymntohumanity #philliswheatleypoetry #philliswheatleypoems #thomasjefferson #christianity #religion #slavery #americanslavery #americanindependence #revolutionarywar #britishrule #johnpeters #education #animation #charitagainey #gavinedwards #movult #ted #teded #teded #teded #tedanimation