Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published African American poets. This post explores her life as a slave and her time after being emancipated. Respected by everyone from countless historical ...
Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...
In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...
Born in Senegal, West Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped by slave-traders and brought to America when she was about 7 years old. Her birth name has been lost to history, but we know that she ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new ...
Who are the true pioneers of nature poetry? Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black ...
In a 1774 letter to the Rev. Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley wrote that civil and religious liberty are "so inseparably united, that there is little or no Enjoyment of one without the other." No one ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
UAlbany English Professor Wendy Roberts is photographed in UAlbany's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives on Friday, January 13, 2023. Dr. Roberts recently discovered a new poem ...
Among the shelves of the Historic Society of Pennsylvania’s research library, a poetry scholar appears to have discovered a quintessential piece of Boston history. Written in one of its many books is ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: ...
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