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22. 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. 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.

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Poems Expand Search Wheatley, Phillis. Poems About the electronic edition: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral: a machine-readable transcription Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 ca. 137 kilobytes The New York Public Library. New York, N.Y. About the print source: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 A. Bell London Prepared as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library. All quotation marks retained as data. All unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. The images exist as archived TIFF images, and one or more JPEG versions for general use.

24. Phillis Wheatley: A Short Biography The short life of phillis wheatley, AfricanAmerican poet of the late 18thcentury. phillis wheatley, Poet A Brief Biography. by phillis wheatley. http://www.jmu.edu/madison/wheatley/biography.htm

Phillis Wheatley, Poet A Brief Biography by Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley was an internationally known American poet of the late 18th century. She was born in West Africa circa 1753, and thus she was only a few years younger than James Madison. Of course, her life was very different. She was kidnapped and enslaved at age seven. Too young to be sold in the West Indies or the southern colonies, she was purchased by John Wheatley, a prominent Boston tailor, in 1761. She was spared the worst of slavery, but the harsh New England climate (harsher then than now) would take its toll. Thumbnail detail from cover of Ms. Wheatley's book. Clickable for a larger view. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, from the American Memory Collection (Library of Congress) Clearly a gifted child, she was tutored by Mrs. Wheatley. She received no formal schooling, but her progress was amazing. Mr. Wheatley wrote: "PHILLIS was brought from Africa to America, in the Year 1761, between seven and eight Years of Age. Without any Assistance from School Education, and by only what she was taught in the Family, she, in sixteen Months Time from her Arrival, attained the English language, to which she was an utter Stranger before, to such a degree, as to read any, the most difficult Parts of the Sacred Writings, to the great Astonishment of all who heard her.

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Encyclopedia Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley, Phillis, , American poet, considered the first important black writer in the United States. Brought from Africa in 1761, she became a slave of the Boston merchant John Wheatley, who, recognizing her intelligence and wit, educated her and encouraged her talent. Her work, which was derivative, includes Poems on Various Subjects (1773). Although she obtained her freedom and traveled to England, where she was much admired, she eventually died in poverty. See her Life and Works (1916, repr. 1969). Wheatley, Henry Benjamin Wheaton, Henry AD AD AD AD AD Print this page Cite this page Awards and Press Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search ... Privacy

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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

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Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley, engraving attributed to Scipio Moorhead, from the frontispiece of her 1773 book Corbis-Bettmann (b. c. 1753, Senegal, West Africad. Dec. 5, 1784, Boston, Mass., U.S.), the first black woman poet of note in the United States. She was sold from a slave ship in Boston in 1761 to work for the family of John Wheatley, a merchant. The Wheatleys soon recognized her talents and gave her privileges unusual for a slave, allowing her to learn to read and write. At the age of 14 she began to write poetry, and her first published work, "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine . . . George Whitefield" (1770), attracted much attention. In 1773 her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in England under the sponsorship of the Countess of Huntingdon, and Wheatley's reputation spread in Europe as well as in America. A poem published in 1776, dedicated to George Washington, brought her further acclaim. The dissolution of the Wheatley family by death left Phillis Wheatley alone, and in April 1778 she married John Peters, a free black man who failed in business and apparently also failed to support Phillis and her children. At the end of her life she was working as a servant, and she died in poverty. Wheatley's poetry, largely concerned with morality and piety, was conventional for its time. Her significance stems from the attention that she drew to her successful education. Her poems were reissued in the 1830s by Abolitionists eager to prove the human potential of blacks.

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29. Africana Blackboard Lesson Plans And Learning Exchange: Phillis Wheatley phillis wheatley African American Literature Media Photo of the frontispiece ofphillis wheatley's book Features Library of Black America wheatley, phillis; http://www.africana.com/blackboard/bb_lga_000088.htm

Phillis Wheatley [2]-Poetry Posters Subject Area: Language Arts Related Subject Areas: History Grade Level: Estimated Time Requirement: Several class periods for discussion and follow-up projects. Note: This is the second of two companion lesson plans devoted to Phillis Wheatley. Lesson Objectives: Read and listen to poems by Phillis Wheatley Analyze poetic structure Interpret figurative language Explore history through literature Create poetry posters to share ideas National Standards: Language Arts Standard 6: Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of literary texts Level IV: High School (Grades 9-12) Applies reading skills and strategies to a variety of literary texts (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, myths, poems, biographies, autobiographies, science fiction, supernatural tales, satires, parodies, plays, American literature, British literature, world and ancient literature) Knows the defining characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, myths, poems, biographies, autobiographies, science fiction, supernatural tales, satires, parodies, plays, American literature, British literature, world and ancient literature, the Bible)

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31. Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784. Memoir And Poems Of Phillis Wheatley, A Native Afri Memoir and Poems of phillis wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicatedto the Friends of the Africans. By phillis wheatley, 17531784. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/wheatley/menu.html

Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784 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 SGML/TEI file for use with an SGML Viewer Illustrations Frontispiece Title Page Title Page Verso Title Page for "Poems ..." Subjects African American poets Biography. African American women poets Biography. Slaves Biography. Slaves' writings, American. ... Wheatley, Phyllis, 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 February 07, 2001

32. B. B. Thatcher (Benjamin Bussey), 1809-1840. Memoir Of Phillis Wheatley, A Nativ Memoir of phillis wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. BB Thatcher (Benjamin Bussey),18091840 Memoir of phillis wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/thatcher/menu.html

B. B. Thatcher (Benjamin Bussey), 1809-1840 Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Boston: G. W. Light; New York, Moore and Payne, 1834. Full Text (36 p., ca. 60K) HTML file SGML/TEI file for use with an SGML Viewer Subjects African American poets Biography. African American women poets Biography. Slaves Massachusetts Boston Biography. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. John Hay Library, Brown University, 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/thatcher/menu.html Last update November 07, 2001

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DIVERSITY In 1700, there were about 250,000 Europeans and African Americans in the colonies. By 1775, that number had increased 10-fold to 2.5 million. This huge increase was due in part to a prolific birth rate and in part to a steady flow of immigrants into the country. The most concentrated period of migration to America occurred in the fifteen years prior to the American Revolution, when approximately 220,000 new faces arrived on the eastern seaboard. About 85,000 of these were African Americans. Scotch-Irish, Scots, English and Germans constituted the bulk of the remaining immigrants. The 13 British colonies in which they arrived were different in a variety of ways. Congregational churches dominated New England, while Anglicans were prevalent in Virginia. Quakers settled Pennsylvania and Catholics were tolerated primarily in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Scotch Irish tended to migrate to the western regions of the colonies from Pennsylvania southward. New York and the Hudson River Valley contained a great number of Dutch families, remnants of its years as a Dutch-held colony. And Pennsylvania had enough Germans to alarm Benjamin Franklin, who wrote, in 1755: "Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of Anglifying them More than 90 per cent of colonial families lived in rural areas and there were at least four basic economies. In the deep south, Georgia and South Carolina, rice was the chief export. Tobacco production dominated the Chesapeake Bay colonies. The middle colonies, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, produced bread, flour and grain. And New England's chief exports were dried fish, livestock and wood.

34. Africans In America/Part 2/Phillis Wheatley Part 3 17911831. Part 4 1831-1865. Narrative Resource Bank Teacher'sGuide People Events phillis wheatley c.1754 - 1784, Resource Bank Contents. 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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Quick Title Search Press Room About Us Contact Us Site Map ... Browse Our Catalog document.write(url); Free Resources Reference Reviews Marketing for Libraries Black History Month ... Women's History Month Phillis Wheatley Read her poem "To His Excellency, General Washington" (c. 1754-1784) Nationality: American Career: Poet Wheatley was born in 1753 or 1754 in West Africa (present-day Senegal), kidnapped, and brought to New England in 1761. John Wheatley, a wealthy Boston merchant, bought her for his wife, Susanna, who wanted a youthful personal maid to serve her in her old age. Wheatley was frail and sickly, but her gentle, demure manner charmed Susanna. The child learned to read and write quickly and became proficient in Latin, so the Wheatleys assigned her only light housekeeping duties and encouraged her to study and write poetry. As a result, she achieved a high level of education rare for upper-class colonial men, let alone women or slaves. In fact, Wheatley was treated less like a servant and more like a member of the Wheatley family. She was given a private, well-heated room and a lamp to use at night. She was free to visit with the Wheatleys' friends but forbidden to associate with other slaves. It is believed that Wheatley began writing in 1765. Her poem "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of That Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield" gained her national and international attention when it was published locally in 1770 as a broadside pamphlet and then reprinted in newspapers throughout the American colonies and in England. Wheatley continued to write elegies and honorific verses to commemorate the lives of friends and famous contemporaries as well as poems to celebrate important events.

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