Discuss the sentiments of Phillis Wheatley as expressed in her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” and that of the spirituals. Do you believe Wheatleys gratefulness for her condition is warranted despite not being free? Should she have expressed a longing for freedom as her fellow Africans and African Americans did as they sang spirituals? 
Explore Horton’s feelings about liberty as captured in the following lines from his poem “On Liberty and Slavery”:”Oh, Liberty! thou golden prize, So often sought by blood” We crave thy sacred sun to rise, The gift of natures God!”