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Essential Questions
How did Phillis Wheatley influence American History? How did her work affect people?

=Introduction=

[|Phillis Wheatley] was the first African American poet in the 18th century. Phillis was a slave when she was 7 years old; her slave owners, the Wheatley family, taught her how to read and write. The Wheatley family was her inspiration to write poetry. Her poems were about [|highschool]

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