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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. womenshistory.org

    Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems. Her works continues to be studied by historians, and her legacy has inspired generations of writers. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by enslavers and brought to America in 1761
  4. phillis-wheatley.org

    Phillis Wheatley was born in Western Africa, in either Senegal or Gambia. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a child slave servant to help his wife and daughter, Susanna and Mary. The Wheatleys were a progressive Bostonian family who did not consider it immoral to educate a slave even though it was illegal in other parts of the country.
  5. 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 ...
  6. blackpast.org

    Susannah Wheatley taught Phillis to read not only English but some Latin. While yet in her teens, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry, and the third woman in the American colonies to do so. That book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, became controversial twice.
  7. thefamouspeople.com

    Phillis Wheatley Biography (Writer) Birthday: May 8, 1753 . Born In: West Africa. Advanced Search. Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in the middle of the eighteenth century, possibly in areas in or around Senegal. Captured around the age of seven, she was sold to a distinguished Bostonian family ...
  8. encyclopedia.com

    Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784), the first African American woman poet, was a celebrated literary figure in Boston during the Revolutionary era. In 1761, a frail child of seven or eight years, Phillis Wheatley came to America by slaveship from Senegal and was auctioned to Mrs. John Wheatley, wife of a prosperous Boston tailor. The Wheatleys ...

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    Phillis Wheatley

    American poet

    Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. 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. After she learned to read and write, they encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent. On a 1773 trip to London with the Wheatleys' son, seeking publication of her work, Wheatley met prominent people who became her patrons. The publication in London of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral on September 1, 1773, brought her fame both in England and the American colonies. Prominent figures, such as George Washington, praised her work. A few years later, African-American poet Jupiter Hammon praised her work in a poem of his own. Wheatley was emancipated by the Wheatleys shortly after the publication of her book of poems. Wikipedia

    BornWest Africa
    DiedDecember 05, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    OccupationPoet
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