The Slave Girl

I've been doing alot of research in preparation for educating my son. I found an websight all about early america and it sucked me in. It's amazing to read what our founding fathers believed. But what really amazed me was a short biography of a black slave girl. Her name is Phillis Wheatley.

Here is a girl sold into slavery at age 7, spoke no English, yet by age 12 could read not only English, but Greek and Latin. A slave girl was better educated in early America than most high school graduates today who are lucky if they can read English. I'd like to read some of what this girl wrote. I think I'll go look for it.

Hey, I found her poems..
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html