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 ...

as part of the bicentennial of Washington’s birth. In 1949, the writer Shirley Graham Du Bois published an influential young-adult biography, “The Story of Phillis Wheatley.” Black men ...

Phillis Wheatley was a well-known poet and literary sensation during the 18th century. Born in May 1753, she was kidnapped from Gambia, West Africa at about the age of 7 and brought to Boston ...

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 ...

Phillis Wheatley was sold into bondage at age 7 in the area of Senegal and Gambia. She made her way to Boston on a slave ship called the Phillis, and thus that became her first name. She was sold ...

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 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 ...

It is believed to be the earliest known full-length elegy by Phillis Wheatley, the Boston-based author who’s widely considered the first African American to publish a poetry book. “There’s ...

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 ...