At the age of eight a young women by the name of Phillis Wheatley, who would eventually become one of America’s most controversial African-American poets, was brought to America from Africa. She was born in Senegal sometime in 1753 and once she was finally brought to Boston, Massachusetts, on a slave ship, she was bought by a white family. The father of that white family, John Wheatley, bought Philis so she could serve as a personal servant to his wife. Luckily for her, this white family educated her and soon afterwards she was fluent in both Latin and Greek, and was moving on to writing advanced poetry, which was due to the support from her white owners. Wheatley did not write about cruel experiences or create racial poetry based on black culture, but instead wrote about being against slavery, faith, and tolerance, which people enjoyed. By this time, having spent most of her lifetime in America and white society, she had learned to accept their…