Overview
A young, sickly Phillis Wheatley was brought to Massachusetts as a slave. She grew up in two worlds treated well and educated but still enslaved. In her short life she wrote nearly 150 poems and became the first African-American poet to publish a book. She died alone and in poverty, but her poems live on. They provide a unique perspective on life in colonial America in the late 1700s.
- | Author: Robin S. Doak
- | Publisher: Compass Point Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0756551668
- | ISBN-13: 9780756551667
