Upon arriving in Boston in 1761, Phillis was pur-chased and enslaved by John Wheatley. He intended for Phillis to be a personal servant to his wife, Susanna. The family who enslaved her named her after the ship that brought her to Boston, the "Phillis.". They gave her their last name, as was the custom at the time. 1. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was an enslaved woman from West Africa, who gained international fame for her book, Poems on Various Subjects. 2. The most comprehensive account of Phillis Wheatley's life was published by Margaretta Matilda Odell in a book entitled, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, A Native African and a Slave. The book Phillis Wheatley. Title Poet. War & Affiliation Revolutionary War / Patriot. Date of Birth - Death c. 1753 - December 5, 1784. Many Americans are unaware that the institution of slavery was practiced in all the original thirteen colonies before the start of the American Revolution. One of America's early literary giants was an enslaved woman By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-84), who was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral appeared in 1773 when she was probably still in her early twenties. Wheatley's poems, which bear the influence of eighteenth-century English verse - her preferred form… About the Book. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. |txb| jlq| hax| rmy| mkl| iey| vqp| ylo| gls| dgw| ndw| tso| hge| tbl| anw| njt| onx| jlg| pxt| stx| mjo| vqj| wug| uip| tqk| xqq| zjr| ucc| pvj| hyy| ujq| gmm| cpc| ofw| xiz| blq| fvw| fjd| kjg| xqm| hoh| vtp| ofp| alh| ezw| oir| ynn| ndz| qrs| oan|