In 1761, Phillis Wheatley, a young West African girl, was captured and brought to America on a slave ship. There Susanna Wheatley, wife of prominent Boston businessman John Wheatley, bought her at an auction to serve as lady’s maid. The “gap-toothed girl wrapped in nothing more than a quantity of dirty carpet” would soon rise […]
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