Title: Phillis Wheatley
Description: Provides a close-up look at this young African woman who became a celebrated poet of her time, writing elegies, or tributes to people she admired, as well as poems that used the themes of America's struggle for independence.
Subjects: Poets, African American poets, Juvenile literature, Colonial period, American Poets, African Americans, Biography, Women, Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784, juvenile literature
People: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775