The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and To A Lady and Her Children

Elizabeth Barrett Browning composes this work to describe the trials and tribulations slaves, especially female slaves, must endure. The woman in "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrams Point" loses love and dignity as her lover is killed or brutality beaten which is not clearly defined, as well as losing dignity as she gives birth to a "too white" child, suggesting she had intercourse with her master which was commonly non-consensual. This work highlights a life of horrible events concluding the death of the main characters child so the child would not grow to endure the torture the mother endured.

Phillis Wheatley in "To A Lady and Her Children", delieneates the importance of not mourning for the dead because they are no longer dealing with the stuggles of earth. Wheatley writes about this multiple times. Her slave back ground gives the reader an insight to have she saw the life and became closer to religion as she endured the stuggles of the world such as her writings suggest.