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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
The publication of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) brought her fame both in England and the American colonies; figures such as George Washington praised her work. During Wheatley's visit to England with her master's son, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon praised her work in his own poem. Wheatley was emancipated after the death of her master John Wheatley. She married soon after. Two of her children died as infants. After her husband was imprisoned for debt in 1784, Wheatley fell into poverty and died of illness, quickly followed by the death of her surviving infant son.
Although the date and place of her birth are not documented, scholars believe that Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753 in West Africa, most likely in present-day Gambia or Senegal. Wheatley was brought to British-ruled Boston, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1761, on a slave ship called The Phillis. It was owned by Timothy Fitch and captained by Peter Gwinn.
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Great African American Authors, an eight part series, brings to light the accomplishments of over 40 brilliant black writers, who against all odds wrote great novels, plays and poetry. These authors include Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, August Wilson and Rita Dove and many more. Learn more and purchase the films: DVDs at AmbroseVideo.com http://www.ambrosevideo.com/items.cfm?id=1461 Video Streaming at AmbroseDigital.com http://www.ambrosedigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage;=shop.flypage_ambrose&option;=com_virtuemart&Itemid;=59&product;_id=18389
The story of Phillis Wheatley's extraordinary life has been captured in a new biography by Vincent Carretta, Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage offers a full-length biography of the woman who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book in America. In a talk delivered at the Massachusetts Historical Society on 2 November 2011, Dr. Carretta delves into the mysteries of Wheatley's life, including her origins in Africa, her upbringing with the Wheatley family, and her role in producing and distributing her poetry in the 1770s. He also reveals his research into the life of John Peters, including Peters's marriage to Wheatley and his life after her death in 1784. For more information about Phill...
A brief video introduction to Phillis Wheatley and her poetry for an American Literature 1 course taught at North Shore Community College in the hybrid-flexible model by Lance Eaton. Lance Eaton @leaton http://byanyothernerd.blogspot.com http://www.lanceeaton.com _______________________________ I wish I had all the answers; better yet, I wish I knew all the questions to ask.
Read "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174733 About the Reader Poet, Playwright and Songwriter Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, NY in 1954, and is the author of several poetry collections: Kartunes; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize; The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Autobiography of a Jukebox; Brutal Imagination; and most recently, Hardheaded Weather (Putnam, 2008). His awards include Fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Traveling Scholarship, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award. His work appears in many journals, magazines, and the a...
This is about Phillis Wheatley. She is a first African American poetess.
Phillis met an African-American Artist whom she married who painted her with such determination in her eyes. Phillis envisioned a multiracial society in which everyone had the same rights and freedoms, but this was not to come to be in her lifetime. She died in her 3rd child birth in 1784, the year after the end of the American Revolution at the age of 31. She launched a tradition of poetry that many thousands would later follow.
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American poet in America and one of the very first women to publish a book in the country. And she accomplished this as a slave. Basically, she was a literary badass. Her book of poetry: https://books.google.com/books?id=KLFBAAAAYAAJ&printsec;=frontcover&source;=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad;=0#v=onepage&q;&f;=false Other sources used: https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/phillis-wheatley/ http://bwht.org/phillis-wheatley/ http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw040306)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley - Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... tumblr: http://worldaccordingto.tumblr.com/ twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenshippen instagram: https://instagram.com/lau...
LibriVox recording of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," and to her eventual emancipation by her owners. Although some of the poems demonstrate an apparent acceptance of the racist values of the white slave-owning classes (which viewed Africans as savage), Wheatley's considerable talents simultaneously contradicted these stereotypes. ( Summary by Elizabeth Klett )
This is a featurette for the historical documentary featuring a poem by Phillis Wheatley about George Washington written in the 1700s: http://KingsHighwayFilm.com
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Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00IBM3YZ2/book With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second womanof any race or background to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatleys work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status.a scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literature and history, Carretta uncovers new details about Wheatleys origins, her upbringing, and how she gained freedom. Carretta solves the my...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://copydl.space/mabk/30/en/B00TQICDD4/book The author of the prize-wining and best-selling historical novel A Song of Africa, Ronald Wheatley turns his attention to the tumultuous days on the eve of the American Revolution in a courtroom drama that brings to life Boston slave poet Phillis Wheatley on trial before eighteen of the most eminent men of the Town. Her "crime", the God-given gift enabling her to compose poetry capable of touching the soul words so brilliantly crafted that her work would be compared to England's Poet Laureate, Alexander Pope. Surely no mere slave could have written the finest poetry produced in the colonies. The outcome will determine not only Phillis' fate, but also a course of a young nation. On the eve of the American Revolutio...
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passes the “Intolerable Acts,” including "quartering." Boston becomes an occupied city (3/74-6/74). In England, Ben Franklin faces charges of treason (1/74). Moses, James, Sarah and Henri hide at poet Phillis Wheatley’s house in Boston, where some of His Majesty’s soldiers are being quartered.
7 - Dwight Woods, Phillis Wheatley Center, Greenville SC, 12/17/11 A Hanvey Time Capsule Video Produced and shot by Curtis Hanvey Curtis2828@gmail.com Curtis28
8 - Dwight Woods, Phillis Wheatley Center, Greenville SC, 12/17/11 A Hanvey Time Capsule Video Produced and shot by Curtis Hanvey Curtis2828@gmail.com Curtis28
McGee lectures on Phillis Wheatley "To his excellency, General Washington"
5 - Dwight Woods, Sammy Dotson sings, Phillis Wheatley Center, Greenville SC, 12/17/11 A Hanvey Time Capsule Video Produced and shot by Curtis Hanvey Curtis2828@gmail.com Curtis28
2 - Dwight Woods Entry, Musical Tribute, Phillis Wheatley Center, Greenville SC, 12/17/11 A Hanvey Time Capsule Video Produced and shot by Curtis Hanvey Curtis2828@gmail.com Hanveytimecapsule@gmail.com Curtis28
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Phillis Wheatley | Poetry | Audiobook full unabridged | English Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," and to her eventual emancipation by her owners. Although some of the poems demonstrate an apparent acceptance of the racist values of the white slave-owning classes (which viewed Africans as savage), Wheatley's co...
Poems written by 5 African American Woman Poets are recited by Stella Winston. The source was the "The Vintage Book of African American Poetry", edited by Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton. ON BEING BOUGHT FROM AFRICA to AMERICA by Phillis Wheatley "America's First Black Woman Poet" THE SLAVE MOTHER by Frances EW Harper LETTER TO MY SISTER by ANNE Spencer REVOLUTION IS ONE FORM OF CHANGE by Audre Lorde IWANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME by Georgia Douglas Johnson TO A DARK GIRL by Qwendolyn Bennett SADIE and MAUD by Qwendolyn Brooks TO BE IN LOVE by Qwendolyn Brooks WE REAL COOL by Qwendolyn Brooks
You can have values and beliefs
Without selling your soul to a religion
We're not here to force an opinion
Sometimes you just need to open your eyes
Drop your weapons-indirectly kill us all
You have caused corruption and we shall cause your fall
So many time, we've been looked down upon
In this "one nation under God"
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!
Cut their throats
With their blood we fill these moats
Sharks feeding on flesh
Of those who won't accept-these differences
This is life- not yours- but mine
It's with these differences, we are defined
I've crossed the line!
Cross it with me
My love is divine!
Emulate me
Why reverse progress?
In this country
Lets take a stand!
What has happened to these people?
Living life with no incentive
Shredded guts and diced intestines
They did it all with good intention
NOW ITS TIME TO GET YOUR REVENGE!