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    Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism - Short biography.; Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) - Information page on the author on the PAL: wheatley, phillis Perspectives wheatley, phillis in American Literature: A Research and wheatley, phillis Reference Guide wheatley, phillis website. Women's History: Slave Poet of Colonial America - Includes a biography, assessments of her literary ...
  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. societyofearlyamericanists.org

    The Work of Phillis Wheatley and An Early African American Literary Tradition Literary scholars typically locate the origins of African American literature in the mid-18th century when those of African descent emerged as writing subjects in British North America. Between 1745 and 1775, we can pinpoint several literary 'firsts.'
  4. 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 ...
  5. nyswritersinstitute.org

    Nov 14, 2024Wendy Roberts, UAlbany English professor and scholar of Early American Literature, received wide attention in 2023 for rediscovering the earliest known full-length elegy by Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of Love Rotch," dated 1767, in a Quaker commonplace book at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania while conducting research into Wheatley's life and legacy.
  6. kidskonnect.com

    Jan 15, 2025Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753-1784) was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773.Born in West Africa and brought to America as an enslaved child, she was supported by the Wheatley family in Boston, who encouraged her education. Although she gained fame and freedom, Wheatley faced personal struggles, losing her children ...
  7. 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.
  8. library.fiveable.me

    Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American female poet, born in West Africa and enslaved in Boston in the 18th century. Her work is significant for its exploration of themes related to race, identity, and feminism, marking her as an important figure in the early development of African American literature and feminist poetry.
  9. viva.pressbooks.pub

    Wheatley became well-read in the Bible; classical literature, including some of the classics in their original Latin; and English literature, responding especially to the works of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), master of the heroic couplet, and John Milton. She also converted to Christianity, becoming a member of the Old South Congregational Church.
  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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