African-American History month

This is African-American history month. Also presidents day is this month too. This month we will learn about  African Americans.
Phillis Wheatley was born circa 1753 in Sengal. She is best know as being a poet. At the age of 12 she published her first poem. Before this at 8 she was captured and put on a slave ship and brought to America. She was sold to John Wheatley.  They taught her Greek and Latin  and encouraged her learning. This was due to her being sickly but very smart. So she caught on to school subjects easily. She published her first and only book of poetry in 1773. She married in 1778 to John Peters a free man. All of her three children died infancy.  She died December 5,1784. as the first African-American women and the third women to publish poetry.
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For more information read this article:
http://www.biography.com/people/phillis-wheatley-9528784
http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/