Let the charge of freedom.

Welcome to the intersection of faith in the culture, it's the wall builder show we're

taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical historical and constitutional perspective

and all of those are going to be included in our topic today we'll get to that a little

later in the program but guys it's February we're doing these really cool heroes of history

Tim who is our topic today.

Our hero today is Phyllis Wheely, Phyllis Wheely.

Some people might be familiar with it, there's a few things he knows we talked about that

some of them might have some general information about but probably don't know a lot of details

of their story and that's where we wanted to go back and highlight something about them so

she was the first black poetist in American history what's really remarkable about it is

that she was actually from Africa was brought to America as a slave historians think

somewhere between the eighties of six and eight years old was when she arrived she arrived

on the slave ship Phyllis the Wheely family are the ones that brought her in and technically

Mr. Wheely bought her as a slave brought her in but he had two children a twins daughter and

son and he tells them but they need to oversee the education they begin educating her but not just

in English because back then education was much more encompassing and so it's it's English

and it's a Latin and it's Greek and Nigga Madden was probably some Hebrew in there and

and then again the mathematics and algebra where she is so brilliant that in a matter of a year and a

half she's pretty much master English language she's already reading classics classics in English

learning Latin I mean just incredible stuff ends up doing poetry and dad really became pretty

significant and famous in her own right and some of the people she got connected with historically

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