Phillis Wheatley Research Paper

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Phillis Wheatley, is my favorite poet, Phillis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa. I would never ever want to be taken away from my home like Phillis Wheatly. Although she died poor, she died a free woman. At least she died a free woman I would want to die a free woman if i was a slave. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent. Honestly I do not like poetry, but I am glad that the family taught her to read and write, because lots of people who buys slaves do not even teach them to read and write. Two of her children died as infants. I am really sad that her two children died, and