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 woman--of any race or background-- to do so in America.
In Phillis Wheatley , Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length Biography of a figure whose origins and lat.
Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley\'s work was an international sensation.
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 woman--of any race or background-- to do so in America
