Wheatley, Phyllis (c. 1753–1784)
| American poet, born in Africa. She was sold as a slave to the Wheatley family in Boston, who encouraged her to write. Her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral were published in London in 1773. |
| Given her freedom, she married disastrously and died in poverty. |
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