Born in West Africa in 1753 and brought on a slave ship to Boston, Phillis Wheatley was educated in the household of her enslaver, John Wheatley. After she was freed from slavery in 1773, she published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, making her the first author of African descent in the American colonies to publish a book.
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