Phillis Wheatley: Colonial African-American Poet Charlotte Taylor
Publisher: Enslow Publishing

1784, American poet, considered the first important black writer in the United States in the colonies, Phillis was taught to read and write by the Wheatley family. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her centered in the history of Europe or colonial America but instead in trans-Atlantic origins. Donald Holmes II identity, and the literacy of colonial America slaves. The Life and Writings of Venture Smith and Phillis Wheatley, American Slaves by. Phillis Wheatley was an African American poet and slave. Would print a number of broadsides elegizing prominent English and colonial leaders. She was kidnapped and brought to the New England colonies in North America on a ship that carried slaves. Views, in the end war became much more important than poetry in Colonial America. Phillis Wheatley was the first black poet in America to publish a book. This week we tell about Phillis Wheatley, the first black female poet in the brought to the New England colonies in North America on a ship that carried slaves. Identifies Wheatley as a black poet who used the resources. American poet Phillis Wheatley spent the majority of her life embroiled in a Her poetry gave insight into marginalized groups in colonial America often The details of Wheatley's life in Africa, including her date and place of birth, are hazy. Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African American poet and first African-American woman whose writings were published. In e Trials of of the eighteenth-century African-American poet Phillis. In 1775, Phillis Wheatley sent a copy of a poem entitled, “To His Excellency, In 1778, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon wrote an ode to Wheatley (“An Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Biography and photos of the first African American poet Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley and omas Jefferson: e Birth of African-AmericanLiterary Criticism .