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Epilogue

29 No record exists of her examination, but we now know
that Phillis passed her test with flying colors, as the eighteen

men signed a document testifying to Wheatley’s authorship,
which appeared in the back of her volume of poems,
published in 1773. She went abroad to England to meet with

literary patrons, and after returning to America she was
freed by her master. When both her master and mistress
died, Wheatley married a Boston shopkeeper.

30 Phillis Wheatley wrote several patriotic poems
during the American Revolution and was
invited by George Washington to visit him

at his headquarters, another journey the
poet gladly made.
After America achieved independence,
31
Phillis hoped to publish another volume of

verse, but she died in December 1784 before
this second collection could appear, and her
unpublished poems disappeared.

testifying If you are testifying, you
promise that what you say is true.

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