Phillis Wheatley
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Biography: Phillis Wheatley
Kidnapped from Africa and sold to a Boston family to work as a servant, Phillis Wheatley’s intellect left a profound impression on her owners. Instead of training her to be a servant, they educated her. By the time that she was twenty, she published a book of poems that received international notoriety.
Kidnapped from Africa and sold to a Boston family to work as a servant, Phillis Wheatley’s intellect left a profound impression on her owners. Instead of training her to be a servant, they educated her. By the time that she was twenty, she published a book of poems that received international notoriety.
Phillis Wheatley
A biography from Women's History Guide, Jone Johnson Lewis.
A biography from Women's History Guide, Jone Johnson Lewis.