Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

‘TWAS mercy brought me from my pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand There is a god, that there is a saviour too: Once I redemption neither fought now knew, Some view our sable race with scornful eye, Their colour is a diabolic die” Remember christians, negroes , black as cain, May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train”“ That was one out of many poems written by Phillis Wheatley, an african-american slave poet who had to go through many tough things in life to pursue her dream of becoming a poet.

Phillis Wheatley was born on a warm spring day on May 8 1753. Phillis was kidnapped at the age of 7 from africa to be brought to boston and sold to be a slave. Phillis wheatley had an surprising childhood. However when she was brought to america she was to be slaughtered because there was only supposed to be women on that ship to be slaves. Luckly a mother of two, susannah wheatley, was on her way to buy a women to be her slave, but when she saw the wry eyed child she brought
Her career started to take off when she decided she wanted to be a poet, she spent so much time doing poetry when finally people started to notice it. Phillis married John peters a freed slave. They had three children, two miserably dying at a young age from sickness and hunger. Sadly John peters was taken to jail for not paying taxes and had to leave Phillis and their remaining child behind. Afterword Phillis continued to live in boston with her child. Though phillis had a hard life in boston she never really talked about her hometown, but soon Phillis really started to take off in her career as a poet she took a trip to Europe to have her poetry looked at but sadly she had to cut her trip short because her mistress (Mrs. Wheatley) had become ill, and died. She continued her trip afterward and met John Handlock, and Benjamin