PHILLIS WHEATLEY

Once sold to an American family, Phillis Wheatley lived in Boston,Massachusetts.

OCCUPATIONS

• Before the Revolutionary War ,Phillis Wheatley was a poet
• During the Revolutionary War, she was a maid in a boarding house
• After the Revolutionary War, she became a poet again

-Phillis Wheatley was a well educated slave.
-She wrote many poems on African American freedom.
-She was an African American slave with a chance to have independence.

-Phillis Wheatley could teach someone to
never give in
to stereotypes.
-Phillis Wheatley also teaches to
appreciate the education we are given.

- Phillis Wheatley might have been a Moslem who wrote many Arabic writings.

-Phillis Wheatley lived in great poverty
-Her husband of two kids ran off leaving her to support the children on her own.
-Her exact birth date is unknown.

http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/Phillis-Wheat...

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/philbio.htm

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/phillis-wheatley