Title: Guide My Pen
Description: Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.
Subjects: African American poets, Juvenile literature, American Poets, Slaves, African Americans, Biography, Women, Colonial period, Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, Poets, juvenile literature, Slavery, united states, African american authors, Women, juvenile literature
Places: United States
People: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775