Who Was Phillis Wheatley

question 26

Multiple Choice

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

• A) a poet who wrote about how African-Americans felt about freedom
• B) a fund-raiser for the Ladies' Association, whose efforts fed nearly starving men at Valley Forge
• C) a pamphleteer whose ringing protests reminded Bostonians that women, too, cared about liberty
• D) a woman who, disguised as a man, died while fighting during the Yorktown campaign
• E) a slave who helped dozens of other slaves escape to freedom behind British lines

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