Articles related to "John Wheatley"

Named Phillis for the ship that brought her to America, Wheatley for the family that bought her, America's first African American poet has become a symbol of freedom.

The idea that a black female slave born in Africa could compose poems in English was preposterous to many people in early America. So she had to pass a test.

Phillis Wheatley was snatched from her homeland at the age of seven and brought to the New World as a slave. She proved to be of superior intelligence and talent.

The history of African American slavery and the American Revolution come to life in these chapter books and graphic novel.