Beyond her poetry, Wheatley’s work established a precedent ... As the first published African American poet, Phillis Wheatley-Peters paved the way for future Black writers to express themselves ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...

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 ...