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Birth
Born in Senegal, West Africa -
Kidnapped
Phillis Wheatley was taken from Africa to Boston. John Wheatley brought Phillis to be a house maid for his wife. -
Poems
She learned how to write poems in 1766 and was questioned by a court system in 1772 if she really wrote the poems. -
Manumission
Susanna Wheatley signed the Manumission to make Phillis Wheatley a free woman. -
Marriage
Phillis Wheatley married John Peters. He was a grocier and he didn't pay his fees so he went to prison. Phillis Wheatley was now hungry. -
Death
Phillis Wheatley and John Peters had 4 kids, three of the kids died. Phillis and her daughter died together from an illness.
