1. poetryfoundation.org

    Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic's political leadership and the old empire's aristocracy ...
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  3. britannica.com

    Jan 20, 2025Phillis Wheatley (born c. 1753, present-day Senegal?, West Africa—died December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) was the first Black woman to become a poet of note in the United States.. The girl who was to be named Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa and taken to Boston by slave traders in 1761. She was enslaved by a tailor, John Wheatley, and his wife, Susanna.
  4. psu.pb.unizin.org

    Here, John Wheatley purchased Phillis as a personal servant for his wife on July 11, 1761. John Wheatley named her after the ship that had transported her to America. Phillis Wheatley was educated by her enslavers, which was not common during this period. She was educated in English, Latin, and Greek, and wrote highly praised poetry.
  5. library.fiveable.me

    Jul 22, 2024Phillis Wheatley: Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American poet in the United States, known for her groundbreaking contributions to American literature in the 18th century. Her work embodies Enlightenment ideals, reflects the emergence of a national literary identity, and serves as a significant example of early African ...
  6. digital.library.sc.edu

    Phillis Wheatley's (1753-1784) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) is the first book published by an African-American author, and the frontispiece portrait of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorhead (born ca. 1750). The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is home to a first edition of the work ...
  7. smithsonianmag.com

    Sep 29, 2023"Phillis Wheatley is a monumental figure not just in terms of literature, but also in terms of culture," Barbara McCaskill, a literary scholar at the University of Georgia and co-director of ...
  8. en.wikipedia.org

    Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 - December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [2] [3] Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where she was bought by the Wheatley family of Boston.
  9. Phillis Wheatley and Literary Americanization PHILLIP M. RICHARDS Colgate University THE WRITINGS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN seen as the beginning of African-American literature. Yet, little atten-tion has been given to the emergence of this new discourse during the 1760s, 1770s, and 1780s, a period in which several social trends
  10. oxfordbibliographies.com

    Jan 7, 2025Phillis Wheatley (Peters) (1753-1784) is one of the most important poets in early American literature and considered by many the mother of African American literature. As a young child, she may have flourished with her family in the largely Muslim Senegambia region of Africa where she would have been taught how to write and read Arabic.
  11. In 1773, Phillis Wheatley accomplished something that no other woman of her status had done. When her book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, appeared, she became the first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published. Born in Africa about 1753 and sold as a slave in Boston in 1761, Phillis ...
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