Phillis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.

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Early slaves were generally denied education, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin and the Bible.

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The board of judges questioned Wheatley extensively and ruled that she was educated enough to have written the book

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What does the speaker say about Phillis Wheatley?

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What was Wheatley forced to do to get her book published

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Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic.

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