Did You Know The Work Of America’s First Black Poet Helped Abolition?– Meet Phillis Wheatley

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By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated May 8, 2023

Phillis Wheatley was a well-known poet and literary sensation during the 18th century. 

Born in May 1753, she was kidnapped from Gambia, West Africa at about the age of 7 and brought to Boston, Massachusetts, where she was then purchased as a domestic servant by the family of John Wheatley, a prominent Boston merchant. Her first name was derived from the ship, “the

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