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PHILLIS WHEATLEY

PHILLIS WHEATLEY. Believed to be a Fulani of Gambia Named after the slave schooner she was brought over on, Phillis Brought to the Boston Harbor in 1761. At about age seven she became the property of John Wheatley. HER LEVEL OF EDUCATION.

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PHILLIS WHEATLEY

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  1. PHILLIS WHEATLEY • Believed to be a Fulani of Gambia • Named after the slave schooner she was brought over on, Phillis • Brought to the Boston Harbor in 1761 • At about age seven she became the property of John Wheatley

  2. HER LEVEL OF EDUCATION • John Wheatley, a local tailor, said of Phillis, “Without any assistance from School Education, and by only what she was taught in the Family, she, in sixteen Months Time form her arrival, attained the English Language, to which she was an utter Stranger before, to such a Degree, as to read any, the most difficult of Parts of Sacred Writing.” • Phillis not only desired to learn the English language, but also Latin. • Phillis’s collection of verse, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was introduced with the statement made by John Wheatley about Phillis in 1772. • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in England in 1773

  3. Phillis’s Accomplishments Phillis was the first African living in the British colonies to have a book published Even more interesting was she was the second woman to have a book of verse published in the British colonies Phillis Wheatley was loved by all who knew her, especially in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Wheatley was eventually free from slavery, but she still lived a hard and short life

  4. Her Life after Slavery • In 1778, Phillis married John Peters and began a rigid life. • They had two children together, but both children died by 1784 • At age thirty-one, Phillis was working in a low rate boarding house • Phillis was pregnant with her third child while working at this boarding house, but sadly the delivery was difficult. • She died at age 31, in 1784, and the child died a few hours later

  5. Questions about Phillis Wheatley • Where was Phillis Wheatley from? • Where did she get her name from? • Why do you think it was such a big deal for her poems to be published? • Phillis was the first African American and the second woman to do what in the British colonies? • At what age did Phillis Wheatley die and what from?

  6. QUIZ • Go to Microsoft Excel and take the quiz on Phillis Wheatley for a daily quiz grade

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