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Bookmark or Share- Phillis Wheatley Peters | The Poetry FoundationTwo of the greatest influences on Phillis Wheatley Peter’s thought and poetry were the Bible and 18th-century evangelical Christianity; but until fairly recently her critics did not consider her use of biblical allusion nor its symbolic application as a statement against slavery.
- About Phillis Wheatley - Academy of American PoetsPhillis Wheatley Peters was born in West Africa in 1753. At the age of eight, she was kidnapped, enslaved in New England, and sold to John Wheatley of Boston. The first African-American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies, Wheatley learned to read and write English by the age of nine, familiarizing herself ...
- Phillis Wheatley - National Women's History MuseumPhillis 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.
- Phillis Wheatley | Biography, Poems, Books, & Facts | BritannicaPhillis 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.
- Phillis Wheatley - WikipediaPhillis 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.
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