Wheatley – “To His Excellency General Washington”   In 1773,…

Wheatley – “To His Excellency General Washington”

 

In 1773, Phillis Wheatley accomplished something that no other woman of her status had done. When her book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, appeared, she became the first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published. Why do you think she wrote the poem “To His Excellency General Washington?”

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