Phillis Wheatley

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    Phillis Wheatley

  • kidnapped

    kidnappped by slave traders

  • published first major work

    a poem in memory of evangelist George Whitefield
  • Phillis writes a letter against slavery

    Phillis writes a letter against slavery

    writes a letter against slavery that is reprinted in newspapers all over New England Susannah Wheatly dies

  • writes ''Reply''

    she writes ''Reply'' the first known literary work

  • meets george Washington

    meets with george washington at his headquarters in Massachusetts

  • John Weatly dies

  • writes her last poem

    ''Liberty and Piece'' celebrating the end of American Revolution

  • Phillis Wheatly dies

    Phillis Wheatly dies penniless in a Boston boardinghouse