The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.

After Phillis was observed writing “letters” on the wall, one of the Wheatley daughters taught her to read English. In December 1767, when she was about 14, she published a poem about a ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

I f The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is principally a literary biography, it is simultaneously and forcefully a political history of race and slavery in Revolutionary-era America.

Phillis Wheatley became famous for being the first Black American to publish a book of poetry. In 1773, the publication of her “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” which she wrote ...

Before Phillis Wheatley published her renowned collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773, she’d had to withstand an interrogation by 18 men deemed “the most respectable ...

In September 1773, Phillis Wheatley, a young enslaved woman from Boston, boarded a ship home from London, where she had gone to promote her forthcoming book of poems — the first ever published ...

The PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION was established in 1911 in Cleveland as the Working Girls Home Association by JANE EDNA HARRIS HUNTER.Hunter created the Phillis Wheatley Association to house and help ...

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.