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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poet Phillis Wheatley achieved an astonishing number of breakthroughs — she published the first book in English by a person of African descent, and was the third North American woman to publish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...