when it comes to the men who were educated in the tradition of timbucktu, the limit eed timbucktu, and the men who lived in georgetown for decades, or the colonel, an african prince that spent 40 years in captivity. when it comes to the women, the african women that are part of this pre-existing network it gets a little more difficult to identify them. however, there is an african descent woman, or an african woman, woman born in africa, brought here in the early 1850s, or let us say, born in the early 150s, that would become the most prolific african writer, african descent writer in the united states, in the antebellum period. her name, phyllis wheatley. born around early 1850s, in, a region of africa that today we called senegal and gambia. when she was born, this region of africa was dominated by annetan et an ethnic group. they had kingdoms in senegal, guinea, and in the timbuktu, they rule the king on the throne at timbuktu. the culture is a very interesting culture. at the time she was captured in the 1860s, the colonel was born. about the same time she is captured. she is about