A new collection of works by and about Phillis Wheatley includes a rare handwritten manuscript of the poet's 1773 poem titled "Ocean." Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African ...

A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery. By Jennifer Schuessler Around 1772 ...

Artist in the Archive: Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters When: 7 p.m. June 18 Where: Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury ...

May 8 is Phillis Wheatley’s ... some white colonists questioned the authenticity of her poems because they couldn’t believe a Black woman had written ... Her work played a role in the ...

Artist in the Archive: Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters When: 7 p.m. June 18 Where: Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

UAlbany professor finds early work of poet Phillis Wheatley Peters. ... The work was described as "a few lines written by a Negro girl, about 15 years of age, on the death of Love Rotch." ...

After Phillis failed to secure an American publisher for her poetry book due to her race, she and her mistress’ son, Nathaniel, traveled to London and made the connections to publish her work in ...

But Wheatley wrote little about herself, and the white people around her wrote nothing about her until she became famous. Many 18 th-century whites disbelieved that a slave could have written such ...

An autographed manuscript of the 70-line dramatic poem “Ocean” by Wheatley, ca. September 1773, four pages. An issue of The Arminian Magazine, August 1789, features the 20-line poem “On the ...

Artist in the Archive: Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters When: 7 p.m. June 18 Where: Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury ...

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.