Phillis Wheatley
Subtitle: America's first Black poetess
By: Illustrated by Victor Mays.
Contributors: Mays, Victor, 1927- ill.
Series: Americans all
Publisher: Garrard Pub. Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Juvenile literature.; Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.; Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American poets -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Biography.; Women -- Biography.; Poets, American.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
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.