Who Was Phillis Wheatley

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.