The dramatic play “Phillis in Boston” centers around the events set on the same ship of the Boston Tea Party, when Phillis Wheatley returns to Boston with her first published books of poetry.. Written ...

Kidnapped from an unknown location in Africa as a child and put aboard a slave ship to America, Phillis Wheatley arrived at Boston in July 1761. The wealthy evangelical merchant John Wheatley and ...

Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published African-American poets. This post explores her life as a slave and her emancipation.

Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet and writer, came back to life last Saturday afternoon at the Cumberland County Library in a re-enactment by Dr. Dasiy Century.

PREVIEW ‘Faces of Phillis’ imagines Phillis Wheatley’s life for the 250th anniversary of her poetry collection Work by playwright Ade Solanke and poet Porsha Olayiwola will be performed at ...

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: A Poet's ...

Not much is known about Wheatley’s life before enslavement, but historians presume she was born in 1753 in West Africa. At age 7 or 8, a trader bought her from a local chief and brought her to ...

Phillis Wheatley's first published work of poems was among the cargo of the ship that rebels board the night of the Boston Tea Party. Her quest to the books back is the subject of a play on now at ...

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage Vincent Carretta. Univ. of Georgia, $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8203-3338-0 ...

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 ...

In Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, scholar Vincent Carretta argues for a subtler reading. He writes, "Such critics confuse accommodation with appropriation." ...

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 Ph… ...