Remembering Poet Phyllis Wheatley
Posted on February 2, 2005 by thestateofblog
“Phyllis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa. A slave ship brought her to Boston in 1761. John Wheatley, a prosperous tailor, and his wife, Susannah, purchased the young girl directly from the ship and named her Phyllis Wheatley, knowing nothing of [...]
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