Phillis Wheatley as engraved by Scipio Moorhead, featured as frontispiece to her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773).
Featured on PDR in the essay An 18th-Century Genius in Bondage: The Poems and Politics of Phillis Wheatley
Transported as a slave from West Africa to America when just a child, Phillis Wheatley published in 1773, at the age of twenty, her *Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral*. Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.
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Phillis Wheatley
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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