A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.

Newly discovered poem linked to Phillis Wheatley raises hope for fuller picture of her life By Tiana Woodard Globe Staff,Updated May 3, 2023, 6:24 p.m. 21 ...

Phillis Wheatley’s small size and likely traumas — she had spent months alongside dozens of fellow Africans below the ship’s deck as it sailed across the Atlantic — were not a matter of ...

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.

IDEAS The quietly radical genius of Phillis Wheatley Twelve years after being taken to Boston on a slave ship, she published an internationally acclaimed collection of poetry. But her story has ...

Phillis Wheatley was the American colonies’ first Black poet and second woman to publish a book of poems. Here are more facts about her.

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic oppression and powerful politicians like Thomas Jefferson questioning her ...

Poems by Wheatley with Amanda Gorman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Richard Blanco, and more. In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who ...

Phillis showed a natural aptitude for language. David Waldstreicher, professor of history at the City University of New York and author of the forthcoming biography The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley ...

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 ...

An enslaved teenage prodigy in colonial Boston, Phillis Wheatley used her fame as a writer to advocate for her freedom.

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 ...