Brief Biography Of Phillis

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Phillis was born May 8, 1753 in West Africa. In 1761, at the age of 8, she was brought to Boston Massachusetts on a slave ship. She was then purchased by John Wheatley to be a slave for his wife. She published her first poem at age 12, having learned Latin and Greek from the Wheatley’s and mastering it quickly. Her first book was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. She married John Peters in 1778, and had three children who all died young. She died in Boston on December 5th 1784, at the age of 31, during childbirth. Phillis’s purpose in writing wasn’t to educate, or to make anyone aware of anything, she wrote out of pure passion. Phillis loved writing, reading, and literature and because of that love, she started writing