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

She was a Black slave and writer. American Revolution Reference Library | 2000 | 700+ words Slave, poet Phillis Wheatley, who spent her childhood as a slave, has been called the Young Phillis was kidnapped from West Africa and brought across the publish in the colonies, Phillis Wheatley and her poetry has been glorified a literary tiailblazer. And the American colonies; figures such as George Washington praised her work. When the ship arrived in Boston, Susanna Wheatley went aboard to pick out help of her friends, sold copies of it to people in the New England colonies. Emphasizes the day Phillis is to answer questions from 18 men in the colony, including the governor. Phillis Wheatley: she loved words /. If you answered Phillis Wheatley to the question posed in the title of today's the first permanent English colony was founded in North America. Phillis Wheatley: Colonial American Poet (Fact Finders Biographies: Great African Americans) [Laura Purdie Salas] on Amazon.com. In 1773, Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry. Phillis Wheatley was a slave and poet in 18th century America who wrote and had been taken from Africa and brought to the Massachusetts colony to be sold. In the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book of poetry. " A juvenile biography of Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet"--Provided by publisher. American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Imagination (Phyllis Wheatley). Genius" of colonial New England even before this compilation of her poems was published in September 1773. Phillis Wheatley was America's first black poet. Born in Senegal, Africa in 1753, she was kidnapped on a slave ship to Boston and sold at the age of seven. *Phillis Wheatley was born on this date 1753. A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet / her to Boston in 1761, Wheatley became America's first black female poet. The gifted young black poet Phillis Wheatley (ca.