The war continues, causing much suffering, as wars so often do, among the non-combatants. Mistress Wheatley experiences the war as a battle between liberation and deprivation. She, being crafty and courageous, survives--as does her hope. 

The endowment of instruction upon Mistress Wheatley and inquiry into her capacity with letters.  The increased notice of her ability and publication of her tome. She travels to England to meet her benefactress, a meeting that never occurs. She returns to Boston to tend to her mistress' health.  She is freed following her mistress' death. She marries. The colonialist rebellion begins. 

Mistress Wheatley becomes a familiar of the family and discovers a propensity for letters, for words, and for sentences.  Within 16 months of her enslavement, she is reading the Bible, and other works of literature.  

In the year 1761, a young girl is stolen from Africa and carried to the New World in a journey she closely observes. Her name, Phillis Wheatley, derives from the name of the slave ship she was abducted in, and the name of the family who purchased her.  We do not know the name she carried with her from her homeland.