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2. Apr. 2014 · After being kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved in Boston, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies in 1773.
On Being Brought from Africa to America. By Phillis Wheatley. 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand. That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negros ...
15. Apr. 2024 · Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753−84) was the first Black woman to become a poet of note in the United States. She is best known today for her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1768).
Phillis Wheatley was the author of the first known book of poetry by a Black woman, published in London in 1773. Prior to the book's debut, her first published poem, "On Messrs Hussey and Coffin," appeared in 1767 in the Newport Mercury. In 1770, her elegy on the death of George Whitefield, a celebrated evangelical Methodist minister who had ...
Phillis Wheatley's poems continue to be studied by historians and literary scholars due to her talented use of language and biblical symbolism, as well as her ground-breaking book. Footnotes Jared Ross Hardesty, Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (New York: New York University, 2016), 78.
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.
Phillis Wheatley / by an unidentified artist / Engraving on paper, 1773 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 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 ...
