Phillis Wheatley

By Cynthia Salisbury

Subjects: Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, Juvenile literature, Biography, Women, African American women poets, African americans, biography, African Americans, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Women slaves, American Poets, African American poets, Slaves

Description: Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.