My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom by Afua Cooper

My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom

Afua Cooper

152 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction historical challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numer...

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