Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... apparently led to a friendship with Occum, who was also a poet, and who later published an Indian hymnal. On February 11, 1774 ...

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world ... She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the British ...