Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

So they stayed at Phyllis Wheatley House. The organization, now known as the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and named after an 18th-century enslaved woman who became a well-known poet ...

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book. Phyllis’s life started out ...

Black women were no exception, and in 1895, the Phyllis Wheatley Club was founded in Nashville, TN. Named after the first African American poet to have her works published in the U.S, the club’s ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...