Road to Liberty: Phillis Wheatley | The White House Founders Museum | PragerU
Groundbreaking poet Phillis Wheatley is considered the first African American woman, and only the third American woman, to publish a book of poems. Wheatley was renowned for her imagination, drive, and courage. Born around 1753 in Africa, she was kidnapped at age seven and enslaved in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Wheatley family in 1761. She […]

