Phillis wheatley full biography for students

In reading her work and learning her life story readers discover an intelligent, courageous, driven, compassionate, and optimistic woman who defied all odds against her in making a lasting legacy for centuries to come. Explore the links below for online biographies, articles, and videos. Please note these are third party resources.

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Phillis Wheatley. She grew up enslaved in Boston. Within a few years she learned to read and write in English, Latin, and Greek despite customs excluding Africans and African Americans from receiving a formal literacy education. She became a published poet by age About a decade later she released a full book of poems, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

In doing so Wheatley was the first African, third woman, and person who was enslaved in the U. Phillis Wheatley, image via Library of Congress.

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