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Phyllis Wheatley



Often regarded as our first African-American writer, Phyllis Wheatley's poems garnered her the acquaintance and respect of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock as well as letters of appreciation from George Washington. Her neoclassical works treat a number of significant themes, including politics, religion, nature, and her own slavery.


Some Internet Resources:


  • Phillis Wheatley - Phillis Wheatley. by: Kelly. Phillis Wheatley was a famous poet. When she was around 17 she published her first book. After that she met with George...
    --http://www.sped.ukans.edu/~scottk/qr/patriots/wheatley.html

  • Phillis Wheatley - PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753-1784) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London: Printed for Archibald Bell and Sold in Boston by Cox and Berry, 1773..
    --http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/wheatley.html

  • Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism - Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism. Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a.
    --http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html

  • RRLC: Phillis Wheatley Community Library - Rochester Regional Library Council. Phillis Wheatley Community Library. 13 Bronson Avenue Rochester, N.Y. 14608 TELEPHONE: (716) 235-3682. HOURS: M &..
    --http://www.rrlc.org/guide/arc35.shtml

  • Wheatley, Phillis - Wheatley, Phillis. Wheatley, engraving attributed to Scipio Moorhead, from the frontispiece of her 1773 book. Corbis-Bettmann. (b. c. 1753, Senegal, West..
    --http://blackhistory.eb.com/micro/637/40.html

  • Learning Commons - What is Culture? - Glossary Item - Phillis Wheatley - Wheatley, Phillis. African-born Phillis Wheatley (~1753-1784) was brought to the U.S. as a slave in the ownership of a merchant named John Wheatley....
    --http://www.wsu.edu:8000/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/glossary/wheatley.html

  • Treasures: Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library - THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Treasures. 55. Phillis Wheatley 1753?-1784. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral....
    --http://kwaziwai.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/rare/55.html

  • No Title - HISTORICAL TIMELINE WITH PHILLIS WHEATLEY. 1883-84: California Colored School opens with E. Wood as principal. 1891: Lucie N. DuValle becomes principal....
    --http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/schools/elementary/wheatley/Timeline.html

  • No Title - Through Other Eyes: Phillis Wheatley & Anna Green Winslow. This is both a curriculum booklet and a 1 1/2 hr. program in which a class may explore daily...
    --http://k12.oit.umass.edu/masag/3127r.html

  • School Home Page for 546 - Phillis Wheatley Middle School. Phillis Wheatley Middle School 20 Kearsarge Ave Boston, MA 02119 (617) 635-8165. Principal: Michael Anderson. Directions...
    --http://www.boston.k12.ma.us/WWW/schools/rc546/rc546.html

  • No Title - Mr. Wagner, Principal. Our newspaper staff has found out a some interesting facts about Mr. Wagner, Phillis Wheatley's principal. Mr. Wagner is in his...
    --http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Schools/Elementary/wheatley/wagner.html

  • The Music - Seven Ghosts. By Libby Larsen. I.Grace and Glory. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), arrived in Boston in 1761 on the slave-trade schooner Phillis. She was...
    --http://mama.indstate.edu/users/swarens/larsen1.htm

  • No Title - Who Was Phillis Wheatley? (1753-1784) The following was compiled by the fourth grade class of Mrs. Angela Graves. This was included in the Program of...
    --http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/schools/elementary/wheatley/life.html

  • No Title - Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784. Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753 to John and Sussannah Wheatley. She was considered important because first, she was a woman,.
    --http://home.eznet.net/~khoffman/WHEATLEY.HTML

  • No Title - Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was born around 1753 and brought to America from Africa in 1761. She became a slave in the household of the Boston...
    --http://www.cybertech-mall.com/119.html

  • Ferris Black Literature Syllabus - Litr. 202: Black American Literature Dr. Leon Jackson Ferris State University, Fall 1995. Week 1. INTRODUCTION. Tues. Nikki Giovanni, 'Campus Racism 101.'.
    --http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/academics/departments/english/jacksonl/ferrisaa.htm

  • No Title - Mr. Jeff Lykins, Counselor. Mr. Lykins is Phillis Wheatley's new counselor. In fact, this is his first assignment as being a counselor. Mr. Lykins is in...
    --http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Schools/Elementary/wheatley/lykins.html

  • An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned D - About the electronic version An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, who departed this life...
    --http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/readex/18726.html

  • No Title - The Project Gutenberg Etext of Poems, by Phillis Wheatley*** On Various Subjects Religious and Moral Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be...
    --http://kcmo.com/text/whtly10.txt

  • No Title - Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Boston Women's Heritage Trail Guide. Lowell National Historical Park Eastern National Boott Museum Store. Farm to Factory...
    --http://k12.oit.umass.edu/masag/zlifmwal.html




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