Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child ... This book included powerful poems about faith, freedom, and the injustices of slavery, infused with influences from the Enlightenment and ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects ... She lived through this movement of intense discussion of liberty and freedom as an enslaved person ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven ... As she did in several of her poems, notably her ode to the Earl of Dartmouth, Wheatley used the letter to Occum as an occasion to point out ...