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(5-7 sentences) explaining the purpose of the poem. to the right honorable william earl

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Phillis Wheatley's poem “To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth” was written in the hopes that the new earl would relieve the African's from the tyranny that they faced with the previous ruler of England. Because of the earl's opposition to the Stamp Act, he was now considered to be an ally of the colonists.

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