Title: Phillis Wheatley
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.
Subjects: African American poets, African American women poets, African Americans, American Poets, Biography, Juvenile literature, Slaves, Women, Women slaves, Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, African americans, biography
Places: United States
People: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775