Revolutionary Poet

This engaging biography by Maryann Weidt chronicles the remarkable journey of Phillis Wheatley, who was taken from her family in Africa at the age of seven and brought to Boston as a slave in 1761. Purchased by the Wheatley family, she quickly mastered English and began to write poetry, gaining recognition by 1771 as her works appeared in newspapers across the colonies. Wheatley became an internationally celebrated poet and made history as the first black American to publish a book.