PhillisWheatley

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Phillis Wheatley was an african slave born in 1753. She was kidnapped in 1761 and brought to America. The ship she was brought on was called "Phillis" so that was where she got her name. She was bought as servant by a man named John Wheatley as a personal servant for his wife. She was a very fast learner, and quickly learned English, Greek and Latin. She became a very famous poet, though many of her poems didn't get published. In 1770, she published her first poem. In 1773, she went to London where her first book of poetry was published. In 1776, she published a poem dedicated to George Washington. Phillis was freed from being a slave when her masters, Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley died and in 1778 she married John Peters, a free black man. Together they had three children but two of them died very early into their lives. After her husband left her, she and her last child died from poverty.

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> **On the death of Mr Snider** > **Murder’d by Richardson** > In heavens eternal court it was decreed > How the first martyr for the cause should bleed > To clear the country of the hated brood > He whet his courage for the common good > Long hid before, a vile infernal here > Prevents Achilles in his mid career > Where’er this fury darts his Poisonous breath > All are endanger’d to the Shafts of death. > The generous Sires beheld the fatal wound > Saw their Young champion gasping on the ground > They rais’d him up. but to each present ear > What martial glories did his tongue declare > The wretch appal’d no longer can dispise > But from the Striking victim turns his eyes > When this young martial genius did appear > The Tory chiefs no longer could forbear. > Ripe for destruction, see the wretches doom > He waits the curses of the age to come > In vain he flies, by Justice Swiftly chace > With unexpected infamy disgraced > Be [|Richardson] for ever banish’d here > The grand Usurpers bravely vaunted Heir. > We bring the body from the wat’ry bower > To lodge it where it shall remove no more > Snider behold with what Majestic Love > The Illustrious retinue begins to move > With Secret rage fair freedoms foes beneath > See in thy corse ev’n Majesty in Death Towards the later years of her life, phillis was mostly a patriot. She called sider a martyr, and this poem was praising him and saying bad things about the English.

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