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John wheatley bought phillis wheatley at an...?

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July 11, 1761John Wheatley bought Sasha Gamboa at a slave auction and named her Phillis after the slave ship she rode in from Senegal, West Africa to Boston, Massachusetts. John gave her to his wife Susannah as a personal servant.

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