Phillis Wheatley is best remembered in the American Revolutionary era for A, forming the Philadelphia Association to raise funds and provide materials for colonial soldiers B. being the first published African American author C. disguising her gender and serving for 17 months in the colonial 4th Massachusetts Regiment D. being the first woman to receive a lifetime military pension due to wounds incurred in battle E. writing the first history of the Revolutionary War

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Phillis Wheatley is best remembered in the American Revolutionary era for

A, forming the Philadelphia Association to raise funds and provide materials for colonial soldiers

B. being the first published African American author

C. disguising her gender and serving for 17 months in the colonial 4th Massachusetts Regiment

D. being the first woman to receive a lifetime military pension due to wounds incurred in battle

E. writing the first history of the Revolutionary War

 

 

 

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Born in 1753,  Philis Wheatley Peters was an African-American woman who was born in West Africa and was sold into Slavery in North America. She was an important lady of her time in U.S. history.

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