Anne Bradstreet was born and educated in England. She emigrated with her family when she was 18. Her husband became the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. She preferred her long religious poems or conventional subjects such as the seasons, but contemporary readers like the witty poems of her life and the loving poems to her children and husband. She often used elaborate conceits or extended metaphors when writing. Phillis Wheatly was kidnapped from her home in Africa , she was then sold into slavery. When she was sold into slavery is when she got her name. She was 7 or 8 when she was brought to America when she was then sold to a wealthy Boston tailor, John Wheatly. He bought her to be a servant to his wife. His wife realized Phillis's talent
