A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatly,

Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry. Educated by the people who enslaved her, Phillis mastered Greek and Latin. She became well known for her poetry and became the poster child for the early abolitionist movement

In the North, it was not against the law to teach a black person to read or write, but it was never done. Susannah Wheatley, Phillis’ mistress, encouraged her education. Phillis mastered Greek and Latin,and geography, as well as served her mistress. But poetry was her love. This book parallels the colonists’ struggle for freedom from English rule with Phillis’s life as an enslaved poet.

A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatly, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Paul L

"A know Journalism of her time. Durning the month of black historyI decded to share the history and culture of black that date back in the 1700. According to this article Phillis was 7 years old at the time of Inslavery. She was known for her writing skills. This is what capiture my attention. She was an talented young laid that wrote poems .Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753 – December 5, 1784) was a poet. She was the first African-American person to have a book published. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis.

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Some of her work included every human beast, notice she refer to human as beast. Because we has a animalistic personality so with an out look that protray unhuman behavior. They do not see blacks as humans and their treatment of people with color is more deverstating to their life. looking at Phillis from the 1700 centry goes to show even though we are treated in such a deverstating manior we still can move to greatest. Because it not what is seen on the outside it is what on the inide that will determine your out come.

Her style of writing tells a story of her time. I feel she is clearing her mind of the pain the has held her capture. I am sure there was a time when she tought there was not way out. So She as myself writes her feelings for me it put me in a place of peace and that is what I see here with Phillis.

Even though, we are no treated with respect does not mean we should live without respect.

Know that God has not forgotten you, and he is still will to give you the desires of your heart.The bible ttell us seek and we will find. So it is up to you to search out your destiny.

Enslaved Poet: Phillis Wheatley

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Pragmatic Mom

The three women of the Boston Women’s Memorial are Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Stone. I posted on Lucy Stone here. Today I wanted to learn more about Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry. Educated by the people who enslaved her, Phillis mastered Greek and Latin. She became well known for her poetry and became the poster child for the early abolitionist movement. Her collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773, with the help of the Countess of Huntingdon in England. She was granted her freedom when she returned and married John Peters in 1778, also a free African American. They lived in Boston and had three children, all of whom died in infancy. No one would publisher her second book of poetry and they struggled with poverty. Ultimately, Phillis was forced to work as a maid in a boarding house, living in squalid conditions. She died in Boston on December 5, 1784, at thirty-one years old. The poems for her second book of poetry have never been recovered.

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Reading Phillis story give me hope and courage to contiue pushing for my dreams. I may niot live to see my books become famious but I do hope they wil be a source of motivation for someone in the near future.