This lavishly illustrated biography tells the extraordinary story of Phillis Wheatley, kidnapped and transported to slavery from her West African home as a 7 year old, in 1761. Her kindly New England owners defied convention by educating her, and her progress was such that by the age of 14 she had a poem published in a newspaper. As a young woman her writing brought growing fame, freedom, and an invitation to England to have her poems published and to meet the King.