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Phyllis Wheatley
(ca. 1753 - Dec. 5, 1784)
Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her, cultivating her rare gift of writing. She was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. She was was celebrated as "the extraordinary poetical genius" of colonial New England.
Phillis Wheatley's
Poems on Various Subjects (1773) in the University's Rare Books collection is available online in Searchable Digital Facsimile. |
