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because they didn’t believe that a slave could write so well
People doubt the authenticity of Phillis's work as they didn’t believe that an [tex]18[/tex]-year-old black slave girl could be a literate, skilled poet.
Phillis Wheatley
- Phillis Wheatley Peters was a well-known poet in pre-colonial America.
- Educated and enslaved in the family of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, she was lionized in New England and England, with presses in both countries publishing her poems, and paraded before the political leaders of the new republic and the aristocracy of the old empire.
- People doubt the authenticity of Phillis's work as they didn’t believe that an [tex]18[/tex]-year-old black slave girl could be a literate, skilled poet. In sending her poems off to London in search of a publisher, Wheatley's supporters wanted to verify their authenticity lest anyone doubt it.
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