Phillis Wheatley (circa 1753-1784 ... She and her child were buried in an unmarked grave, the location of which remains unknown.

"The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley" is not a cradle-to-grave biography, and a reader eager for details of this path-breaking writer's life will be frustrated. Students of American colonial history ...

Wheatley was born ... death's heads and frowning angels. Phillis, who died in poverty after developing pneumonia at age 31, is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave, with her deceased newborn ...

Despite her literary success, Phillis Wheatley faced numerous challenges in her later years. She was granted freedom after ...

Phillis Wheatley is the mother of the African-American ... but also triangulating it to other moments of grave political and national stakes. ...if only we're brave enough to see it.

Phillis Wheatley wrote what is said to be the first ... on Various Subjects” bound with another short book, “The Grave,” by the Scottish preacher and poet Robert Blair.

Before Phillis Wheatley published her renowned collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773, she’d had to withstand an interrogation by 18 men deemed “the most ...

Actor Cathryn Philippe, who interprets Wheatley ... frowning angels. Phillis, who died in poverty after developing pneumonia at age 31, is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave, with her ...