CounterPunch

Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery

Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...
AllHipHop

Phillis Wheatley – America’s First Groundbreaking Poet

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 historical ...
Delaware County Daily Times

Black History: Phillis Wheatley, poet and slave

Born in Senegal, West Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped by slave-traders and brought to America when she was about 7 years old. Her birth name has been lost to history, but we know that she ...
WGBH

Who was Phillis Wheatley, the first African American poet to publish a book?

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 ...
BBC

Phillis Wheatley: The unsung Black poet who shaped the US

She is believed to be the first enslaved person and first African American to publish a book of poetry. She also forced the US to reckon with slavery's hypocrisy. When the Dartmouth sliced through the ...
Essence

Did You Know The Work Of America's First Black Poet Helped Abolition?– Meet Phillis Wheatley

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, ...
insider.si.edu

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New-England

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and ...
WAVY-TV

Biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley is winner of George Washington Prize

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley’ Review: A Poet’s Emancipation

Leading up to the American Revolution, England possessed one advantage in the heated propaganda war with its wayward colonies: American patriots, so preoccupied with their own liberty, were among the ...
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Phillis Wheatley: America’s first black published poet

In a 1774 letter to the Rev. Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley wrote that civil and religious liberty are “so inseparably united, that there is little or no Enjoyment of one without the other.” No one ...