BITCHUTE - Road to Liberty: Phillis Wheatley | The White House Founders Museum | PragerU
Groundbreaking poet Phillis Wheatley is considered the first African American woman, and only the third American woman, to publish a book of poems. Wheatley was renowned for her imagination, drive, and courage. Born around 1753 in Africa, she was kidnapped at age seven and enslaved in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Wheatley family in 1761. She was named after the boat that brought her to the colony, “the Phillis.” The Wheatley family educated her, and within a remarkably short period after her arrival, she had a command of the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, British Literature, astronomy and geography. A prodigy, Wheatley grew in notoriety in 1770 after she published “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated George…