Then, she was not Phyllis Wheatley at all, but a young West African ... In 1778, Phyllis married a free black man, John Peters. Her literary output slowed – the couple’s living conditions ...
In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...
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.
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