{"id":5087,"date":"2026-01-08T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?page_id=5087"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:31:17","slug":"american-voices-1770s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/american-voices-1770s\/","title":{"rendered":"American Voices: 1770s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>TEXT:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/phillis-wheatley-on-being-brought-from-africa-1773\/\">Wheatley, \u201cOn Being Brought From Africa\u201d (1773)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight line poem in heroic couplets with iambic pentameter<\/li>\n<li>Published as part of a volume of poetry entitled\u00a0<em>Poems on Various Subjects<\/em> \u2013the first by an African American author\u2013 in London in 1773<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>TEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/abigail-and-john-adams-letters-1776\/\">Adams, Letters (1776)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Abigail and John Adams exchanged two private letters in March and April 1776; the excerpts provided here focus on Abigail Adams\u2019s advice to her husband about the need for making any \u201cCode of Laws\u201d in their new country more \u201cgenerous\u201d toward women and John Adams\u2019s teasing but perhaps also uneasy response<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/texts\/declaration-of-independence-1776\/\">Jefferson, Declaration (1776)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Jefferson chaired the committee that produced the Declaration in early summer 1776; he was the principal author of the document that contained three sections:\u00a0 preamble, grievances against the King or \u201ctrain of abuses,\u201d and the resolution for independence<\/li>\n<li>The Second Continental Congress voted for Independence on July 2 and approved the Declaration (as amended) on July 4; the final document was not \u201cengrossed\u201d (or written formally in parchment) and ready for signatures until early August 1776<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXT:\u00a0\u00a0Wheatley, \u201cOn Being Brought From Africa\u201d (1773) Eight line poem in heroic couplets with iambic pentameter Published as part of a volume of poetry entitled\u00a0Poems on Various Subjects \u2013the first by an African American author\u2013 in London in 1773 TEXT: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/american-voices-1770s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5087\/revisions\/5090"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}