Justice In Phillis Wheatley's Chains

Slavery and death penalty, are these words we want to hear thrown up in the air or can we respect others and bring justice to our world. Justice is something everybody should have the right to but yet in the past and even now people are finding that not everybody has justice. In this paragraph I will talk about how Isabel from the novel Chains is slowly finding her justice, how Phillis Wheatley the highly acclaimed poet found her’s, and how we are trying to find justice on the debated topic of death penalty.
Justice should be a given but our treacherous past proves it must be earned. In the novel Chains an epigraph written by the highly acclaimed Phillis Wheatley states, “ I young in life by seeming cruel fate was snatch’d from Afric’s Fancyied happy seat:... ...that a father seiz’d his babe belov’d ;... such, my case. And then but pray others my never feel tyrannic sway? - Phillis Wheatley, ‘To the right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth.’ “ (Anderson, 8). The author wants us to think about the strong longing for freedom that teased Isabel into hope but the beast of slavery drove her back into the frigid grasp of chains. The epigraph on page 8 is relevant to chapter 2 because it is written by a woman who was sold as a slave after being imported from Africa at the ripe age of 8. In the chapter Isabel and Ruth were deprived of their promised freedom and captured once again by the cruel culture of slavery. For example the experiences of Phillis Wheatley and Isabel and Ruth are very similar because they were both ripped from their safe places and put in front of the grotesque jowls of the glutton named slavery. In the epigraph the author introduces the theme of

Although they have brought us down we as a people can find a way to respect one another and bring justice to our unique race just like Isabel is starting to, just as Phillis Wheatley did, and we will never