Plot+and+Conflict

Summary-

In this book Phillis, a seven year old slave girl form Africa, is kidnapped from her home along with her friend and mother. Phillis is deviated when her mother is through over bored from the ship supposedly because she had small pox. Obour, her friend, convinced Phillis that living is worth the pain because you only live once.

From the minuet Phillis arrives in America she gets a bad image. Her first view of America was dirty and grim. She has been branded and sold to the Wheatley family for seventy-two cowrie shells. At first she was look as useless to everyone in every way. But all that changes with an education.

One day Nathaniel realizes that Phillis has potential to be more than a servant girl, so he educates her. Soon after writing her first poem about her hair, the world knows the great talent Phillis Wheatley has. After doubting her self and being pushed forward the time comes for Phillis to be given a voice of her own. To break ground for those who follow.

By Sally