Phillis Wheatley Biography Summary

Susanna Wheatley Mary Wheatley. Throughout her life she had three main influences and supporters.

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Despite spending much of her life enslaved Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and second woman after Anne Bradstreet to publish a book of poems.

Phillis wheatley biography summary. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a child slave servant to help his wife and daughter Susanna and Mary. The Wheatleys were a progressive Bostonian family who did not consider it immoral to educate a slave even though it was illegal in other parts of the country. Phillis Wheatley was born in Western Africa in either Senegal or Gambia.

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