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  1. 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.
  2. phillis-wheatley.org

    She provided inspiration to other African American slaves such a Jupiter Hammon who in 1778 wrote "An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley". Her influence as an African American writer goes beyond literature and starts by proving that, if given the opportunity, African slaves had the same intellectual capacity and creativity as Europeans.
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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
  5. societyofearlyamericanists.org

    affected the literary and cultural landscape of early America. Phillis Wheatley perhaps is the most prominent of those examples. Wheatley was born in a region of West Africa we call Senegambia. She was born approximately in the year 1753 and sold into slavery when she was seven or eight years old. She arrived at a Boston harbor on July 11, 1761.
  6. 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.
  7. southern.libguides.com

    Research Guides at Southern Adventist University

    https://southern.libguides.com › colonialamericanlit › wheatley

    Oct 28, 2024--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835 Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767.
  8. 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 ...
  9. pgcc.libguides.com

    In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status. A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literature and history, Carretta uncovers new details about Wheatley's origins, her upbringing, and how she gained freedom.
  10. 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 ...

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