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Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

1753–1784

United States

About Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley was born in West Africa around 1753. When she was about seven or eight years old, she was captured, enslaved, and shipped to Boston, where John and Susanna Wheatley bought her to serve as a household servant.

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