Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic oppression and powerful politicians like Thomas Jefferson questioning her ...

Then, she was not Phyllis Wheatley at all, but a young West African ... In 1778, Phyllis married a free black man, John Peters. Her literary output slowed – the couple’s living conditions ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...