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