Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published African American poets. This post explores her life as a slave and her time after being emancipated. Respected by everyone from countless ...

In the Dartmouth's hold was another precious cargo: freshly printed copies of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, a collection by Phillis Wheatley, the first enslaved person ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Biography of 18th Century Poet Phillis Wheatley Is Winner of George Washington Prize NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets ...

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 ...