Month: January 2021

• January 31, 2021

  Remembering Phillis Wheatley

  How do we remember Phillis Wheatley? Wheatley lived several distinct lives. She was abducted from what we would consider Gambia today, and brought to America without her family. Her front teeth had not yet grown in. At around age 20, her owners emancipated her not out of a moral demand, but due to her success. […]