Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Freed Slave and Poet Phillis Wheatley

by Wendy Lawton

Book Overview

Daughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.

1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Africa and brought to America as a slave. But she didn't let her circumstances keep her down.

She learned to read and write in English and Latin, and showed a natural gift for poetry. By the time she was twelve, her elegy at the death of the great pastor George Whitefield...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802476392
• ISBN13: 9780802476395
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7