Considered the first published Black poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) learned to read and write from the Wheatleys, a prominent family in Boston who purchased her as a slave when she was a ...

Phillis Wheatley was a prominent African American poet during the American Revolutionary period. She is recognised for her fervent commitment to the abolition of slavery. Wheatley was the first ...

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 ...

For Black History Month, she spoke to GSAS about her research into Black New England poet Phillis Wheatley Peters and her use of games in her poetry. This interview is in Jenny's own words, with ...

click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.

They include Phillis Wheatley, who is considered to be one of the first Black and enslaved people to publish a book of poems. She learned English and history from the elite Boston family who ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

“I think that the truth is that poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state’s history,” said Governor Healey. The governor listed poets like Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth ...