Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Phillis Wheatley was a prominent African American poet during the American Revolutionary period. She is recognised for her fervent commitment to the abolition of slavery. Wheatley was the first ...

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world ... She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the British ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... apparently led to a friendship with Occum, who was also a poet, and who later published an Indian hymnal. On February 11, 1774 ...

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.

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 ...