The “most respectable characters in Boston” asked to meet with Phillis Wheatley in October 1772 because:
Phillis Wheatley was an African American slave who learned how to read and write without attending any institutions of learning. Her master and his wife were impressed by her writing.
Wheatley wrote exceptional poetry despite being a slave so the respectable characters who were mostly men gathered in a room to ask Wheatley questions about her claim to have written those poems.
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