1753-1784

Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.

A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.

A profile focusing on Phillis Wheatley's early years reveals her illiterate beginnings in the Wheatley family and the turbulent pre-Revolutionary War climate in which she became an avid student and young poet.

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.

Biography of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl owned by John Wheatley who was educated and became the first African-American poet in the colonies.

A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.

A biography of the former slave, Phillis Wheatley, who became known as a poet and social commentator.

Surveys the life of Phillis Wheatley, a girl brought to America as a slave in 1761 who gained brief fame as a poet after being taught to read and write by her master. Presented in English and Spanish.

A biographical sketch of African American poet Phillis Wheatley. In support of the Common Core Learning Standards. (CCLS).