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WHO WAS PHILLIS WHEATLEY? | A brief Biography

Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known American poets prior to the 19th century (1800 - 1899). Wheatley was seized from Senegal/Gambia, West Africa when she around seven years old. This was around 1753. Wheatley was transported to Boston on a ship that was carrying enslaved ppl considered as refugees owing to their age or physical frailties. She was soon immersed in the Bible, astronomy, geography, history, British literature and the Greek and Latin classics. At thirteen, Wheatley published her first poem in the Newport Mercury Newspaper. She modeled her work after famous English poets. A lot of her poems were about religious things because she was taught about the Bible from an early age. Her first poem, called “On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin,” appeared in print in 1767. Three years later she gained fame in the American colonies and abroad with an elegy to George Whitefield, a popular preacher. By the time she was about 18, Wheatley had produced a collection of 28 poems covering themes including morality, piety, and freedom. However, no American publisher was willing to print the work of an enslaved person. In 1773, she accompanied Nathaniel Wheatley to England. She published thirty-nine of her poems in a book called Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This was the first book of poetry published by a black American.