Slavery was a very cruel time in American history and during the revolutionary war. The American Revolution was a time where the colonists and British went to war for a fight for their freedom and fighting for land. During the American Revolution many people struggled in hardships and the losses of soldiers. Phillis Wheatly was a very deep thinker and a very deep writer. She wrote plays and poems fighting for our rights. Her poems uplifted the soldiers at war. Phillis Wheatly was born on May 8, 1753 in Gambia Africa. She was sold as a slave at eight years old. To a woman named Susannah Wheatly. She taught her how to read and write because as a slave she could not go to school. Phillis Wheatly made friends with her owners and their
