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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 ...
  7. smithsonianmag.com

    The Multiple Truths in the Works of the Enslaved Poet Phillis Wheatley. ... Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book and the first American woman to earn a living from her ...
  8. 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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