Who was phillis wheatley? a poet who wrote about how african-americans felt about freedom. a fund-raiser for the ladies’ association, whose efforts fed nearly starving men at valley forge. a pamphleteer whose ringing protests reminded bostonians that women, too, cared about liberty. a woman who, disguised as a man, died while fighting during the yorktown campaign. a slave who dozens of other slaves escape to freedom behind british lines.