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 ...
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 Phillis ...
The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.