Welcome to the History Tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Born in Africa, brought to America, she wrote poetry that made her the darling of London.

And the guest of one George Washington.

The End.

Let's talk about Phyllis Wheatley.

But first, let's drop her into history in 1773.

The first public museum in the North American colonies was established in Charleston, South Carolina.

And the first asylum for quote, persons of insane and disordered minds was opened in Virginia.

Captain James Cook became the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle.

What would become known as the world pool galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier.

Jane Austen, sister Cassandra was born.

And in September of 1773, Phyllis Wheatley's book of poetry was published and she entered literary history.

Sometime in April 1761, a little girl whose name we do not know was kidnapped from her family in Africa.

The daughter of?

We don't know.

Does she have sisters and brothers?

Baby?

She was taken to a port somewhere along the southwest coast of Africa.

It's impossible to know where in Africa exactly she might have even come from.

Um, even her port of departure is in question, but the likely place at least for her departure seems to be modern Senegal or Gambia, which if Africa looks like a skull looking to the right.

We're looking at right at the lower part before it turns back to your neck, like the last part of the round part of your head.

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