Wheatley died in poverty at the age of 31 in 1784, leaving behind an unfinished legacy. As the first published African ...

Phillis and Nathaniel Wheatley, the Wheatley’s son, traveled to London. In the year 1773, when Wheatley was 19, her collection of poems “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” was published ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

But later in life, after his exposure to the ideals of the American Revolution ... Among the writers of this period was Phillis Wheatley, whose life was exceptional in many ways.

B. Bright, Possible Princess, winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award recognizing the best African-American books and writers in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s literature. Born in ...