The Phillis Wheatley Association is approaching its 99th birthday in 2018 with a new partner, new programs and new plans for a building makeover. Construction has started at its lower building. The ...

Phillis Wheatley was a well-known poet and literary sensation during the 18th century. Born in May 1753, she was kidnapped from Gambia, West Africa at about the age of 7 and brought to Boston, ...

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She is believed to be the first enslaved person and first African American to publish a book of poetry. She also forced the US to reckon with slavery's hypocrisy. When the Dartmouth sliced through the ...

Twelve years after being taken to Boston on a slave ship, she published an internationally acclaimed collection of poetry. But her story has often been whitewashed. Phillis Wheatley became famous for ...