USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the episode, The Boston Tea Party, Phillis Wheatley was one of Moses’s close friends, and a slave. She houses James, Sarah, Henri and Moses in the stable when the group was escaping the British regulars, who mistakenly thought they were part of Samuel Adams’s troublemaker group. Wheatley was an American poet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wheatley was born in 1753 in Gambia. Around the age of seven or eight, she was forcibly kidnapped and brought across the Atlantic on the Phillis and was soon sold as a slave to John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was owned by Timothy Fitch and captained by Peter Gwinn. On arrival in Boston, she was bought by the wealthy Boston merchant and tailor John Wheatley as a slave for his wife Susanna.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.