Who was Phillis Wheatley of Boston, Massachusetts?

Major Audie Murphy, there is a high school named in her honor in Houston Tx

Player #574128, English Major here and history junkie. Heard about her long ago.

Wise One 2145, Adversity is not a good thing but sometimes it is a necessary thing to bring about something good. Christ dying on the cross was not a good thing but was necessary for the benefit of all.

Unfortunately I’ve never heard of her before.

RAW, if you read that correctly it doesn't say she left of her own free will. It says she was born to be a slave consequently at seven years old she left her homeland. Many children from Africa were born to be a slave. I have a friend from Ghana who told me about it and the fact that slave traders did not go into the jungle and hunt people down. She said part of the ugly history of her country is that people were brought to the beach by family members and were sold to the slave traders.

Ms Wheatley was 7 and sold into slavery. She didn't decide, of her own free, will to leave her homeland.

You grew up in a environment that probably didn't recognize black people as being people with talent. And capability for learning, we all are product of creation GOD made everything good, the human race is just that! We are all in the same.

Grew up in Mass and never heard of her