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Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated ... Rescued from an otherwise hopeless situation by the sympathies of the Wheatley family, Phillis learned English with remarkable speed, and, although she never attended a formal school,
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FAMILY BACKGROUND: Phillis Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761. Her first name was apparently derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis.
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Phillis Wheatley defied all expectations of her class, race, and gender to become ... She was purchased by the Wheatley family who, conscious of her tender age and sympathetic to her poor health, treated her with kindness. She served as the personal attendant of Mrs. Susanna Wheatley and was given household duties.
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Phillis Wheatley continued to live with various members of the Wheatley family until 1778. After the death of John Wheatley and his daughter, Phillis moved to her own home. She soon married John Peters, a free black Bostonian who held a variety of jobs before falling into debt.
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Phillis' quick learning along with her "amiable disposition and propriety of behavior" pleased Mrs. Wheatley, who kept Phillis always with her, separating her from the other family slaves (Odell 15). After 16 months of instruction, Phillis could read English and understand "difficult passages in the Bible." (Richmond 15)
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Six years later, in the service of the Wheatley family, Phillis Wheatley sailed to London where she met Selina Hasting, the Countess of Huntingdon. The Countess helped Wheatley publish a volume of her poetry in 1773. Wheatley had another surprise waiting for her back in America.
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In fact, Wheatley was treated less like a servant and more like a member of the Wheatley family. She was given a private, well-heated room and a lamp to use at night. She was free to visit with the Wheatleys' friends but forbidden to associate with other slaves.
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Phillis Wheatley's family takes on a patriotic bent and refuses to wear clothes made in Great Britain; as a result, they look like second-class citizens and are treated as such by people they thought were their friends.
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Although originally brought into the Wheatley household as a servant and attendant to Wheatley's wife, Phillis was soon accepted as a member of the family, and was raised with the Wheatley's other two children.
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