Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Jane on Phyllis Wheatley

Phyllis Wheatley  (Jane Wilson)


Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal/Gambia, West Africa in 1753. After being kidnapped from her home in West Africa when she was seven or eight years old; a slave ship brought her to Boston in 1761. John Wheatley, a prosperous tailor and his wife, Susanna, purchased the young girl directly from the ship and named her Phillis Wheatley (Phillis was the name of the ship that brought her to the New World). At the time of the purchase, The Wheatleys’ had no clue of the talents she would soon show the world. Phillis Wheatley became the first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies in 1773.








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