Credit: Dawn McCormick Krish Patel of Wheatley throws to the plate during a Nassau baseball game against Plainedge on Monday, May 12, 2025 in Plainedge. Credit: Dawn McCormick Bobby Westcott of ...

Wheatley became a wordsmith of English—the language that had been used by her captors to catalog and register her, to record her sale on Boston’s shore, to exclude her from inheritance in the ...