mia-phillis wheatley

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  • born

    Senegal/Gambia West Africa

  • Seized from West Africa

    She was brought to Boston where she was pampered by John and Suesana Wheatley

  • John and Suesana Wheatley taught Phillis how to read

    They taught her how to read in a matter of two years with the help of thier children

  • Phillis Wheatley published her first poem

    She published her first poem at 13 years,called"The Work"

  • Family died

    Susana Wheatley and John Wheatley died

  • wrote her first book of verse

    Poems on various subjects,religious and moral

  • Visited Washington

    Phillis visited George Washington at his head quarters in Cambridge,Massachusetts

  • Married

    Wheatley married a free African American from Boston, John Peters, with whom she had 3 children with, all of whom died from sickness

  • Died

    Phillis Wheatley died in her early 30s in Boston Massachusetts from poverty