1. Phillis Wheatley PHILLIS WHEATLEY (17531784). Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. PhillisWheatley was one of the most well- known poets in America during her day. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/wheatley.html

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753-1784) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral . London: Printed for Archibald Bell and Sold in Boston by Cox and Berry, 1773. Phillis Wheatley was one of the most well- known poets in America during her day. Wheatley was born on the western coast of Africa and kidnapped from the Senegal-Gambia region when she was about seven years old. Not being of suitable age to be sold as a slave in the West Indies or the southern colonies, she was transported to Boston, where she was purchased in 176l by John Wheatley, a prominent tailor, as an attendant to his wife. Phillis learned English quickly and was taught to read and write, and within sixteen months of her arrival in America she was reading passages from the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature. Phillis published her first poem in the Newport, Rhode Island

2. Voices From The Gaps: Phillis Wheatley PHILLIS WHEATLEY 1753 1784. PROJECT INFO. Overview and purpose of the program.Awards. On December 5, 1784, Phillis Wheatley Peters died in Boston. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/WHEATLEYphillis.htm

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates PHILLIS WHEATLEY PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) Not you, my friend, these plaintive strains become, Not you, whose bosom is the Muses home; When they from tow'ring Helicon retire, They fan in you the bright immortal fire, But I less happy, cannot raise the song, The fault'ring music dies upon my tongue. The happier Terence all the choir inspir'd, His soul replenish'd, and his bosom fir'd; But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace, To one alone of Afric's sable race; From age to age transmitting thus his name With the first glory in the rolls of fame? To Maecenas Phillis Wheatley Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Born in Africa in the early 1750's, the child who would be known as Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston in 1761 to be sold on the slave market. The child was purchased by the Wheatleys, a prominent Boston family. Early on, Phillis showed signs of remarkable intelligence. The Wheatley's noticed this intelligence and encouraged it by making Mary Wheatley her personal tutor. Phillis began writing poems as a young woman and gradually began to see poetry as her avenue of expression in literate white culture. Her first published poem, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin." appeared in the

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4. Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal in about 1753.She was captured by slave traders and brought to America in 1761. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASwheatley.htm

Phillis Wheatley To receive your free copy every week enter your email address below. FREE Education Newsletters - choose below... Education on the Internet Teaching History Online Email: Let keep Ahead .com bring you the world by email Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal in about 1753. She was captured by slave traders and brought to America in 1761. Purcha sed by John Wheatley, a tailor from Boston, Phillis was taught to read by one of Wheatley's daughters. Phillis studied English, Latin and Greek and in 1767 began writing poetry. Her first poem, on the death of George Whitefield , was published in 1770. When Phillis was eighteen she travelled to London and while there the Countess of Huntingdon , helped her publish a collection of her work, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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7. Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley, selected secondary bibliography, links to texts availableon the web, information. Phillis Wheatley (17531784). . http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/wheatley.htm

Literary Movements Timeline American Authors English 310/510 ... English 462/562 Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) American Literature Sites Foley Library Catalog Selected Bibliography on Phillis Wheatley Prof. Ann Woodlief has prepared hypertext discussion versions of several works, including Wheatley's "To S. M." and "Upon Being Brought" Phillis Wheatley's "Letter to Rev. Samuel Occom" Short Biographical Sketch by John Keene at NYU Short Biographical Sketch from Voices from the Gaps Jupiter Hammon's Poem to Wheatley at Paul Reuben's PAL site chapter on Wheatley Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Works Available Online Poems ( at the University of Oregon) Poems at the Schomburg Center for African American Women Writers Comments to D. Campbell. About this site

8. Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley forum, biography, portrait, pictures, lesson plansand online books including Religious and Moral Poems. pictures http://authorsdirectory.com/biography_online_book_portrait_picture/w_authors_phi

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9. Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley. By Kira. The person I am researching is Phillis Wheatley.Phillis Wheatley is a very important person because http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4B/4B98/4bkeh.htm

Phillis Wheatley By Kira The person I am researching is Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley is a very important person because she was the first African American poet. First, Phillis was a slave on a slave ship. But then she was bought by Susannah Wheatley in 1761. She died in 1781. When she was bought by Susannah Wheatley, the Wheatleys educated her. Then she loved words. She started to write poems. She wrote her first poem in 1770. Phillis lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Her religion was Christian. She studied the Bible. This is how I imagine her personality: brave, strong, smart, and happy. She was African American, she had black hair, and she had brown eyes. This is one of her poems: "Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a god, that there's a savior too Once I redemption neither sought nor knew Some view our sable race with scornful eye; Their color is a diabolic dye Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refined and join the angelic train." We still read some of Phillis Wheatley's poems. She was a very good poet and is a very important part of history.

10. HOBA - Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley Poet 17531784. Four years later, after the death of her master,Mr. Wheatley, Phillis became a free woman, leading to hard times and poverty. http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Inductees/Wheatley.htm

Phillis Wheatley Poet Listen to narrative (need RealPlayer - free download A young girl believed to be between the ages of six and eight came to America aboard a slave ship in 1761. This young girl, Phillis Wheatley, was believed to have come from Ethiopia or Senegal, West Africa, and left a substantial mark on American history. She was to overcome the inhumane institution of slavery to become one of this country's greatest poets and the first black American woman to publish a book. Luckily for Phillis Wheatley she was purchased by John Wheatley, a wealthy merchant tailor, for his wife Susannah. Once in the Wheatley home, Phillis was treated as a daughter and assigned chores relative to the status of a lady. Phillis exhibited an astounding ability to learn and in just sixteen months she mastered the English language. At the age of 14, she began to write poetry and quickly gained the attention of the most distinguished Bostonians. In 1770, only nine years after her arrival to this country, she published her poem, "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield", which gained the attention of the Countess of Huntington in England. Three years later, Phillis visited England and before she left, the Countess arranged to have a volume of her poems published. In 1773, the first book of poems by an American black woman was published

11. Poetry Today Online : Classic Poets: Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley (17531784). In It was thus this young malnourishedgirl was given the Christian name Phillis Wheatley. Needless http://poetrytodayonline.com/APRcp.html

April 1998 Phillis Wheatley In 1753, a young girl was born in West Africa unbeknownst of what fate had laid before her. Seven years later she was kidnapped in the Senegal-Gambia region when she was about seven years old. Being so young of age she could not be sold as a slave in the West Indies or the southern colonies, she was transported to Boston where she was bought by John Wheatley, a prominent and rich merchant, in 1761. Being so young and thin she was assigned as a domestic servant to Mrs. Susannah Wheatley who immediately took pity on her. It was thus this young malnourished girl was given the Christian name Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley's first poem, 'On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin,' published in 1767, was a religious piece about two sailors who narrowly escaped drowning; its theme was that through the will of God alone the sailors survived. Over the next five years Wheatley accumulated about 30 poems which her master, John Wheatley, tried to help her publish as a book. This project was hampered by the skepticism of publishers, who did not believe that an African-American was capable of producing such correct and conventional verses. To dispel rumors of dishonesty, Wheatley took the extraordinary step of allowing herself to be examined by a committee of Boston's leading dignitaries, including the Governor and several eminent ministers, and they wrote a testimonial stating that they had examined her and believed that she really was the author of the poems concerned. Her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in 1773. She was twenty years old.

12. Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley,a Native African and Slave (Boston Published by Geo. W. Light http://www.fact-index.com/p/ph/phillis_wheatley.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley December 5 ; also spelled Phylis Wheatley ) was born in Senegal in Africa, but was captured and sold into slavery at a young age. Around 1760 she was purchased by the Wheately family of Boston, and was in fact practically adopted by the family which owned her. She was given a fairly extensive home education, including Latin, Greek, and Biblical studies. She became a very accomplished poet, with her first poem published when she was only 13. In she wrote a poetic tribute on the death of the calvinist George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim in Boston. In she was examined by a group of Boston luminaries including John Erving, Rev. Charles Chauncey, John Hancock Thomas Hutchinson , the governor of Massachusetts, and his Leiutenant Governor Andrew Oliver. They concluded that she had in fact written the poems ascribed to her and signed an attestation which was published in the preface to her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral published in Aldgate London in . It was published in London because publishers in Boston had refused to publish the text. Phillis with her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley went to London, where

13. Phillis Wheatley - The Early America Review, Winter 1996-97 phillis wheatley. America's First Black Woman Poet. phillis wheatley was America's first black poet. Born in Senegal, Africa in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven to John and Susannah wheatley of Boston. a servant and attendant to wheatley's wife, phillis was soon accepted as a member http://earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/wheatley.html

Phillis Wheatley America's First Black Woman Poet P hillis Wheatley was America's first black poet. B orn in Senegal, Africa in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston. Although originally brought into the Wheatley household as a servant and attendant to Wheatley's wife, Phillis was soon accepted as a member of the family, and was raised with the Wheatley's other two children. P hillis soon displayed her remarkable talents by learning to read and write English. At the age of twelve she was reading the Greek and Latin classics, and passages from the Bible. At thirteen she wrote her first poem. P hillis became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitefield in 1770. Three years later thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." It was the first book to be published by a black American. M ost of Phillis Wheatley's poems reflect her religious and classical New England upbringing. Writing in heroic couplets, many of her poems consist of elegies while others stress the theme of Christian salvation. A lthough racial equality is not a theme to be found in Phillis Wheatley's poetry, one allusion of injustice appears in one of her poems which appears below. To hear the poem spoken aloud, please click on the icon.

14. Phillis Wheatley: Precursor Of American Abolitionism Short biography. http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html

Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member. Rescued from an otherwise hopeless situation by the sympathies of the Wheatley family, Phillis learned English with remarkable speed, and, although she never attended a formal school, she also learned Greek and Latin. It is clear that the Christian compassion of the Wheatley family was the nurturing womb in which Phillis' rare gifts were cultivated. She came to know the Bible well; and three English poets - Milton, Pope and Gray - touched her deeply and exerted a strong influence on her verse. She became a sensation in Boston in the 1760s when her poem on the death of the Reverend George Whitefield made her famous. Whitefield, the great evangelical preacher who frequently toured New England, happened to be a close friend of Countess Selina of Huntington, and the latter invited Phillis to London to assist her in the publication of her poems. Her literary gifts, intelligence, and piety were a striking example to her English and American audience of the triumph of human capacities over the circumstances of birth. The only hint of injustice found in any of her poems is in the line "Some view our sable race with scornful eye" - it would be almost a hundred years before another black writer would drop the mask of convention and write openly about the African-American experience.

15. Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784 And Margaretta Matilda Odell Memoir And Poems Of Phi Memoir and Poems of phillis wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Byphillis wheatley, 17531784 and Margaretta Matilda Odell. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/wheatley/menu.html

Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784 and Margaretta Matilda Odell Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans. Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834. Full Text (103 p., ca. 200K) HTML file XML/TEI source file Illustrations Frontispiece Title Page 2nd Title Page Title Page Verso Subjects African American poets Biography. African American women poets Biography. Slaves Biography. Slaves' writings, American. ... Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries provided the text for the electronic publication of this title. Return to "North American Slave Narratives" Home Page Return to Documenting the American South Home Page Feedback URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/wheatley/menu.html Last update March 31, 2004

16. Phillis Wheatley phillis wheatley. Note on the etext this Renascence Editions text was transcribed from the 1786 edition of J An Answer to ditto, by phillis wheatley. P O E M http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html

Return to Renascence Editions Poems Phillis Wheatley Note on the e-text: this ... Publisher Dedicated to the memory of Patricia Nuckles, MLS. CONTENTS. Preface Copy of a letter sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher To the Publick On Virtue To the University of Cambridge , in New England To the King's Most Excellent Majesty On being brought from Africa On the Rev. Dr. Sewell On the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield ... On the Death of a young Lady of five Years of Age On the Death of a young Gentleman To a Lady on the Death of her Husband Goliath of Gath Thoughts on the Works of Providence ... To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady An Hymn to the Morning An Hymn to the Evening On Isaiah lxiii. 18 On Recollection ... A Funeral Poem on the Death of an Infant aged twelve Months To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth Ode to Neptune To a Lady on her coming to North America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in North Carolina To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother. To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a

17. Wheatley, Phillis wheatley, phillis. phillis wheatley. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ 62 40054 ( 1753?1784), poet Africa, the young girl who was to become phillis wheatley was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slaveship http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Wheatley_Phillis.html

Wheatley, Phillis Phillis Wheatley Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ 62 40054 (1753?-1784), poet Born about 1753, probably in Senegal, West Africa, the young girl who was to become Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slaveship in 1761 and purchased by a tailor, John Wheatley, as a personal servant for his wife. She was treated kindly in the Wheatley household, almost as a third daughter. The Wheatleys soon recognized her talents and gave her privileges unusual for a slave, allowing her to learn to read and write. In less than two years, under the tutelage of Mrs. Wheatley and her daughters, Phillis had mastered English; she went on to learn Greek and Latin and caused a stir among Boston scholars by translating a tale from Ovid. From the age of 14 she wrote exceptionally mature, if conventional, poetry that was largely concerned with morality and piety. Wheatley's better known pieces include "To the University of Cambridge in New England," "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty," "On the Death of Rev. Dr. Sewall," and "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine...George Whitefield," the last of which was the first of her poems to be published, in 1770. She was escorted by Mr. Wheatley's son to London in 1773, and there her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

18. PAL: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) Information page on the author on the PAL Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide website. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/wheatley.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben Chapter 2: Early American Literature: 1700-1800 - Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) Jupiter Hammon's Poem "An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly" sic Selected Bibliography Primary Works Her Achievements Strongest Anti-Slavery Statement ... Home Page (Image source: Legacy Photo Gallery 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. Image Credit: Schomburg Center Source: PBS - Africans In America Primary Works An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon (first published as a broadside in Boston, 1770; republished several times); Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

19. PHILLISWHEATLEY wheatley, phillis (17541784) African-American poet Born in West Africa, wheatley was brought to North John and Susannah wheatley, her owners, originally intended to train her to http://www.multied.com/Bio/RevoltBIOS/WheatleyPhillis.html

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20. Africans In America/Part 2/Phillis Wheatley phillis wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the intelligence, and Susannah wheatley's fondness for her, phillis was never trained as http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html

Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative Resource Bank Teacher's Guide Phillis Wheatley c.1754 - 1784 Resource Bank Contents Phillis Wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. Kidnapped in West Africa and transported aboard the slave ship Phillis to Boston in 1761, she was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Young Phillis quickly learned to speak English and to read the Bible with amazing fluency. Because of her poor health, obvious intelligence, and Susannah Wheatley's fondness for her, Phillis was never trained as a domestic; instead she was encouraged by the Wheatleys to study theology and the English, Latin and Greek classics. She published her first poem in 1767, and six years later, she published a book, Poems on Various Subjects . That same year, John Wheatley emancipated her. Wheatley achieved international renown, traveling to London to promote her book and being called upon as well as received by noted social and political figures of the day including George Washington, to whom she wrote a poem of praise at the beginning of the war, and Voltaire, who referred to her "very good English verse." Wheatley lived in poverty after her 1778 marriage to John Peters, a free black Bostonian. Although Wheatley advertised for subscriptions to a second volume of poems and letters, she died before she was able to secure a publisher. Her final manuscript was never found.

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