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

Her 1773 book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral made her in England and soon it became popular in America in the Thirteen Colonies as well. 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 America's first black poet. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet to be published. October 8, 1772, Phillis Wheatley, a slim. Phillis showed great curiosity for books and a gift for writing poetry which was encouraged by Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Phillis Wheatley: Colonial American Poet to the life and biography of Phillis Wheatley, the colonial slave who became one of America's first black poets. Even in the colonial period, freed African Americans, especially in the North, African Americans also engaged in achieving freedom for others, which was a One of the most celebrated of early black writers, African-born Phillis Wheatley was captured The Library holds copies of many editions of Wheatley's poems. Early American Poetry - Phillis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson. Thirteen years later, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American—and the second woman—to publish a book in the colonies. In 1772, a slave girl lyaa' 1'0 Prove she was a Poet.