Title: Phillis Wheatley
Description: Relates the story of a young girl bought as a slave by a Boston family where she later learned to write and became a poet.
Subjects: African American poets, African Americans, American Poets, Slaves, Women, Juvenile literature, Biography, Colonial period, American poets, Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, Poets, juvenile literature, Poets, African americans, juvenile literature, African americans, biography
Places: United States
People: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775