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Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...
It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...
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.
The Phyllis Wheatley Club of Colored Women, Buffalo’s first NACW affiliate was founded in 1899. The PWC began a long tradition of establishing and supporting self-help and advocacy ...
What Ya’ Know Good? Rhonda Rawlings is here with Phllis Wheatley Arts Director Antoinette Hall to talk about the program ...