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	Phillis Wheatley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784), was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States.
		Born in what is modern day Senegal or Gambia, she was captured and sold into slavery at the age of 7, Wheatley was brought to America in ca.
		Phillis and her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley, went to London, where Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillis_Wheatley (715 words)

	Phillis Wheatley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phillis Wheatley was one of the most well- known poets in America during her day.
		Wheatley was born on the western coast of Africa and kidnapped from the Senegal-Gambia region when she was about seven years old.
		Phillis learned English quickly and was taught to read and write, and within sixteen months of her arrival in America she was reading passages from the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/wheatley.html (237 words)

	Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism
		Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member.
		Phillis Wheatley received her freedom and married a free fl man in 1778 but, despite her skills, was never able to support her family.
		Wheatley was the first fl writer of consequence in America; and her life was an inspiring example to future generations of African-Americans.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html (815 words)

	Africans in America/Part 2/Phillis Wheatley
		Phillis Wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems.
		Because of her poor health, obvious intelligence, and Susannah Wheatley's fondness for her, Phillis was never trained as a domestic; instead she was encouraged by the Wheatleys to study theology and the English, Latin and Greek classics.
		Although Wheatley advertised for subscriptions to a second volume of poems and letters, she died before she was able to secure a publisher.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html (178 words)

	PHILLISWHEATLEY
		Contact US Wheatley, Phillis (1754-1784): African-American poet: Born in West Africa, Wheatley was brought to North America and sold in a slave market in Boston at the age of six or seven.
		Wheatley wrote her first poem, "To the University of Cambridge," in 1767, and her work commemorating the death of George Whitefield was published in 1770.
		The Wheatleys made great attempts to foster her literary talent, and she became an internationally-known poet by the time she was 20 years old.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/WheatleyPhillis.html (246 words)

	Phillis Wheatley
		Phillis Wheatley was a native of Africa; and was brought to this country in the year 1761, and sold as a slave.
		Wheatley wished to obtain a young negress, with the view of training her up under her own eye, that she might, by gentle usage, secure to herself a faithful domestic in her old age.
		Wheatley, not long after the child's first introduction to the family, undertook to learn her to read and write; and, while she astonished her instructress by her rapid progress, she won the good will of her kind mistress, by her amiable disposition and the propriety of her behaviour.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASwheatley.htm (1312 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Phillis Wheatley
		Wheatley's doctor suggested that a sea voyage might improve her delicate health, so in 1771 she accompanied Nathaniel Wheatley on a trip to London.
		Wheatley died, Phillis was left to support herself as a seamstress and poet.
		In 1776, Wheatley wrote a letter and poem in support of George Washington; he replied with an invitation to visit him in Cambridge, stating that he would be "happy to see a person so favored by the muses." In 1778, she married John Peters, who kept a grocery store.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/431 (483 words)

	PHILLIS WHEATLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Purchased in 1761 by John and Susannah Wheatley as a domestic slave, it soon became obvious that Phillis was not physically able to perform manual labor due to poor health.
		Thus, Phillis became Susannah Wheatley's companion, and Mary Wheatley (the Wheatley's daughter) began to educate Phillis in theology, literature, and history.
		Wheatley continued to write poetry and maintained the hope that she would publish a second volume of poetry.
	www4.ncsu.edu:8030 /~wdlloyd/phillis_wheatley.htm (387 words)

	Phillis Wheatley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753, in Senegal West Africa.
		The dissolution of the Wheatley family by death left Phillis Wheatley alone, and in April 1778 she married John Peters, a free fl man who failed in business and apparently also failed to support Phillis and her children.
		Wheatley's poetry, largely concerned with morality and piety, was conventional for its time.
	members.aol.com /klove01/Phillis_Wheatley.htm (248 words)

	Phillis Wheatley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753 or 1754 in West Africa (present-day Senegal), kidnapped, and brought to New England in 1761.
		Wheatley was frail and sickly, but her gentle, demure manner charmed Susanna.
		Wheatley continued to write elegies and honorific verses to commemorate the lives of friends and famous contemporaries as well as poems to celebrate important events.
	www.edwardsly.com /wheatley.html (345 words)

	Phillis Wheatley: Famous Female Author
		Wheatley made a name for herself despite being African-American at a time when one's skin color usually meant slavery.
		Her new owners, however, were a wealthy Boston family, the Wheatleys, who ended up treating her like one of the family, just like their two children.
		In fact, she found much to loathe in her freedom, especially the fact that she was living in poverty, a far contrast from her life with the Wheatley family.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/philliswheatley.htm (330 words)

	Phillis Wheatley Profile - Page 2
		Phillis Wheatley’s talent and intelligence proved that they were wrong.
		Susannah Wheatley decided that Phillis Wheatley’s poems were so good that they should be published in a book.
		Phillis Wheatley was never very healthy, and in 1773 she went on a trip to England with the Wheatley’s son in hopes that her health would improve.
	www.bwht.org /wheatley_profile1.html (264 words)

	Phillis Wheatley: First African American Poet
		Phillis Wheatley’s first and only book of published poetry was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; it was published in England.
		The Wheatleys taught Phillis to read, and she was soon reading the classical literature in Greek and Latin, as well as English.
		Phillis' final years were spent in extreme poverty, despite her work as a seamstress.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/16683/92103 (422 words)

	Wheatley, Phillis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WHEATLEY, PHILLIS [Wheatley, Phillis] 1753?-1784, American poet, considered the first important fl writer in the United States.
		Although Wheatley traveled to England, where she was much admired, and soon thereafter obtained her freedom, she eventually died in poverty.
		Subjection and prophecy in Phillis Wheatley's verse paraphrases of scripture.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wheatlyp1.html (275 words)

	Phillis Wheatley, From Slave to Important African-American Writer (Black History Month) - African American Culture
		Wheatley was encouraged by her Boston merchant owner, John Wheatley, to actually write.
		Wheatley was successful in her achievements as a writer.
		Phillis Wheatley went to England in 1773 where her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" was then published.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art350.asp (449 words)

	Phillis Wheatley Biography - Pictures - Her Poetry - eBooks
		Phillis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa.
		Wheatley also studied English literature, Latin, and the Bible, but what she did best was to write poetry.
		Wheatley became a servant later on in her life, and when she died, she was very poor.
	www.topicsites.com /phillis-wheatley/phillis-wheatley-biography.htm (365 words)

	Phillis Wheatley
		Wheatley was able to do both with ease, and her white masters encouraged her to do so.
		Since Wheatley had found her freedom in her Christianity, she felt as though Christianity was the sole road to happiness during and after life.
		Wheatley knew what she believed in, and she was not afraid to let the world know.
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/wheatleyphilip.htm (732 words)

	Wheatley Biography
		Wheatley suggests her affection for her: "Susannah mourns, not can I bear,/ To see the crystal shower, /Or mark the tender falling tear, /At sad departure's hour;"While there, her poetry, 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" was published and dedicated to her English patron, Lady Huntingdon.
		Wheatley did reach out to other artists of color and they to her, as this letter and her poem to Scipio Moorhead show.
		Wheatley in 1774 (whose illness required Phillis to return prematurely from London) and the Revolutionary war were to change her life drastically.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/philbio.htm (873 words)

	African-Americans: Free African-Americans: Phillis Wheatley: Bio
		Phillis Wheatley was an internationally known American poet of the late 18th century.
		Wheatley suffered from asthma aggravated by the New England climate: in 1773, she and the Wheatley's traveled to England where she recuperated.
		John Wheatley died in 1778 and Phillis was on her own: she was free but impoverished.
	www.jmu.edu /madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/era/african/free/wheatley/bio.htm (736 words)

	PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753 – 1784)
		Impressed by her intelligence and manner, the Wheatleys raised Phillis more as a daughter than a slave, allowing their oldest daughters to educate her and allotting her a bedroom and a place at their dining table.
		Wheatley died in 1774, the family dispersed, and Phillis Wheatley married free fl John Peters and settled in
		Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish and the first American woman to try to support herself through her writing.
	www.librarycompany.org /women/portraits/wheatley.htm (332 words)

	Phillis Wheatley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phillis was born 1753 and she lived in Africa.
		When Phillis was 8 years old she was stolen from her parents in Africa and brought to America to be a slave.
		The Wheatley's freed her when she was 20 and she went to England because she was sick.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/wheatley.htm (118 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Wheatley, Phillis
		Born in Africa in the early 1750's, the child who would be known as Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston in 1761 to be sold on the slave market.
		Phillis began writing poems as a young woman and gradually began to see poetry as her avenue of expression in literate white culture.
		Peters put Phillis and the children into a negro boarding house where foul conditions resulted in the children's deaths and a drastic decline in Phillis' health.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/wheatley_phillis.html (1134 words)

	Phillis Wheatley biography
		FAMILY BACKGROUND: Phillis Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761.
		She was especially fond of writing in the elegiac poetry style, perhaps mirroring the genre of oration taught to her through the women in her African American tribal group.
		Phillis' popularity as a poet both in the United States and England ultimately brought her freedom from slavery on October 18, 1773.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/whea-phi.htm (423 words)

	LIBERTY! . Phyllis Wheatley \| PBS
		America's first published fl poet, Phillis Wheatley, born in Senegal, was sold into slavery to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston around 1760.
		At an early age, Phillis displayed remarkable talents and published her first poem, in 1770, when she was just 17.
		Wheatley's poetry dealt primarily with religious and moral themes–her first published piece was an elegy to the evangelical preacher George Whitefield.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/popup_wheatley.html (96 words)

	No. 620: Phillis Wheatley
		The girl is Phillis, a slave of John Wheatley.
		Wheatley bought her nine years ago to be a companion for his wife.
		Some Phillis Wheatley scholars have treated her as an accident of nature.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi620.htm (451 words)

	The My Hero Project - Phillis Wheatley
		She was born in Senegal in 1753, and at age eight was kidnapped and brought to Boston by slave traders.
		Wheatley went on to publish many poems, generally dealing with religion, a popular theme of that day.
		As a result of her early capture and experience on the slaving vessel, Wheatley was frail and sickly for much of her life.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=p_wheatley (606 words)

	Phillis Wheatley: Selected Bibliography
		"Phillis Wheatley's Vocation and the Paradox of the 'Afric Muse'." PMLA 113.1 (1998): 64-76.
		"Phillis Wheatley and the Poetical Legacy of Eighteenth- Century Englad." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 10 (1981): 279-295.
		Shields, John C. "Phillis Wheatley and the Sublime." Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/wheatbib.htm (1160 words)

	wheatbio
		Phillis Wheatley overcame extreme obstacles, such as racism and sexism, to become one of the most acclaimed poets in the 18th Century.
		Phillis received an extensive education, which was comparable to that of a wealthy white man (Mason 4).
		Susanna supplied Phillis with paper and ink to enable her to write and even allowed Phillis to ignore her household duties to write&emdash;something that was practically unheard of for a slave (Mason 5).
	titan.iwu.edu /~wchapman/americanpoetryweb/wheatbio.html (1196 words)

	Authenticity of Phillis Wheatley
		Wheatley’s claim that she was living in darkness and as a pagan while in Africa stands in contrast with her contemporary, John Wesley (1730-1791), a Christian missionary and founder of the Methodist church.
		Sanchez says that Wheatley had to write that way in order to survive, for “survival often meant pretended or affected agreement with reality as written by the master.” In light of this, it is easy to understand Graham’s claim that Wheatley was created to uphold the social values of white America.
		Wheatley, and, as the story goes, she was given a typical education of the day which included Latin, Greek, and letters.
	www.nathanielturner.com /authenticityphylliswheatley.htm (3483 words)

	Writings - Phillis Wheatley
		Phillis Wheatley (1753 - December 5, 1784), also spelled Phylis Wheatley, was born in Senegal in Africa, but was captured and sold into slavery at the age of 7.
		Around 1760 she was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, and was in fact practically adopted by the family which owned her.
		Her work was lauded by some of the leading figures of the American Revolution, including George Washington, who met with her to thank her for a poem she had written in his honor.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAS8144/phillis-wheatley-writings.html (353 words)

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