The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir by Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir

Phillis Wheatley

77 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral, on which this volume is bas...

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