Bibliograph

Phillis Wheatley, slave and poet

Type

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Phillis Wheatley, slave and poet

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Phillis Wheatley

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Signature lives

Sub title

slave and poet

Summary

A young, sickly Phillis Wheatley was brought to Massachusetts as a slave. She grew up in two worlds treated well and educated but still enslaved. In her short life she wrote nearly 150 poems and became the first African-American poet to publish a book. She died alone and in poverty, but her poems live on. They provide a unique perspective on life in colonial America in the late 1700s

Target audience

juvenile

Classification