Sadly, Phillis Wheatley’s birth name is lost to history. She was kidnapped in West Africa in approximately 1760, at about the age of 7, and named for the slave ship, the Phillis, that took her ...

In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...

She owned nothing, not even herself. A little over a decade later, this same girl, named Phillis Wheatley after the slave ship that had transported her (the Phillis) and the enslavers who had ...

About a decade later, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American ... Just a few years later, at age 31, she died after giving birth to her daughter. While history remembers Wheatley ...

THE ODYSSEY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, by David Waldstreicher In the summer of 1761, a 7-year-old African girl arrived in Boston Harbor ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has purchased a trove relating to Phillis Wheatley, the first American of African descent to publish a book. By Jennifer Schuessler In ...

But there was a lot more than tea on the ship that those rebels boarded in disguise. Phillis Wheatley's first published work of poems was among the cargo. Wheatley's quest to retrieve hundreds of ...

PHILLIS WHEATLEY WAS AN ENSLAVED PERSON IN ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN POETS IN. PRE 19TH CENTURY AMERICA. HER LANDMARK BOOK, REFLECTIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL, WAS PUBLISHED IN LONDON ...

Despite her literary success, Phillis Wheatley faced numerous challenges in her later years. She was granted freedom after the publication of her book in 1774 but struggled financially.