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“Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, / May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.” Stolen from Africa, Phillis Wheatley persevered through enslavement to become the first published African American poet. These poems of faith, empowerment, and the experience of enslavement not only capture the heart of their author, but illuminate her astounding expertise in classical poetic form.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book of poetry ever published by an African-American author. Phillis Wheatley¿s deep familiarity with Latin literature and Christianity, combined with her African ancestry, provided her with a unique and inimitable view of poetry. She was kidnapped and brought over to America on a ship called The Phillis after which she was named. Her interest in poetry and literature was recognized ...

Als Phillis Wheatley 1773 ihr Buch Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral veröffentlichte, schrieb sie in mehrfacher Hinsicht Geschichte. Sie war die erste afroamerikanische Person, die einen Gedichtband publizierte. Und sie war Sklavin. Wheatleys Weg vom entführten Kind aus Westafrika zur Begründerin der afroamerikanischen Literatur war hindernisreich. Dass eine afroamerikanische Person Gedichte verfassen könne, musste der weißen Lese...

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In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley family. There, she threw herself into education, and soon she was devouring the classics and writing verse with whatever she had to hand - odes in chalk on the walls of the house. Once her talent...

“Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, / May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.” Stolen from Africa, Phillis Wheatley persevered through enslavement to become the first published African American poet. These poems of faith, empowerment, and the experience of enslavement not only capture the heart of their author, but illuminate her astounding expertise in classical poetic form.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. Phillis Wheatley broke barriers as the first American black woman poet to be published, opening the d...

Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was bought by a wealthy Boston merchant named John Wheatley to serve as a servant to his family. They gave the young girl the name Phillis, after the ship that had transported her to America. The Wheatley family soon recognized her amazing intellect and talent and started giving her an education very unusua...

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions.

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progr...

These poems are from the first book of poetry published by an African-American author. Phillis was brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the Wheatley family, where she threw herself into education, soon she was writing verse of such a high calibre that she enchanted societal figures as lofty as George Washington.