41. Cultural Tourism DC - African American Heritage Trail In 1920 the YWCA moved to its newly constructed building and was renamed to honor phillis wheatley (ca.17531784), considered the first published African http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=205444&at

42. Phillis Wheatley: Symbol Of Freedom Named phillis for the ship that brought her to America, wheatley for the family that bought her, America s first African American poet has become a symbol http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/phillis_wheatley_

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44. The My Hero Project - Phillis Wheatley Educated and encouraged in her writing by Susannah wheatley, phillis wheatley published her first poem in 1770, at age 17. wheatley went on to publish many http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=p_wheatley

45. Phillis Wheatley Biography - Biography.com Learn about the life of phillis wheatley at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos. http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9528784

46. Phillis Wheatley Association: Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theatre For Youth Founded in 1919 as an etiquette class for young AfricanAmerican women of Greenville, South Carolina, the phillis wheatley Association expanded over the http://www.cominguptaller.org/profile-add/pr-add12.htm

Phillis Wheatley Association 335 Greenacre Road Greenville SC Program: Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theatre for Youth Year Started: Focus: Theater Youth Served: Ages: Budget: "Mr. Woods, Ms. Peters. Mr. Nesbitt, and all of those guys were Mom, Dad, brother, sister, aunt, uncle as well as teacher, mentor, and friend. What they taught us about theater helped us to learn about ourselves. Theater was the medicine that took care of the illness called hopelessness." Tammica Pixley, Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theatre for Youth Alumna Founded in 1919 as an etiquette class for young African-American women of Greenville, South Carolina, the Phillis Wheatley Association expanded over the next 75 years to include tutoring and counseling, sports, visual art, and music appreciation in after-school and summer programs. By 1985, the culminating summer camp talent show suggested an opportunity to engage young people in musical theater. As Claudette Alexander-Thomason of Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Performing Arts wrote: Thus, the Repertory Theatre for Youth was born. It was only natural that Dwight Woods, known as the Pied Piper, would be at the helm of this venture because he has an anointed gift for nurturing the talent of others. He challenges young people to achieve - to reach beyond their potential. He does this by using theater as the vehicle for life-altering change in the lives of children who have been all but thrown away by this society.

47. Phillis Wheatley – Profile Of The Poet Phillis Wheatley A brief profile of phillis wheatley, African slave, African American poet from the colonial/Revolutionary War period the original voice of the Other on http://poetry.about.com/cs/18thcpoets/p/wheatley.htm

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48. American Passages - Unit 4. Spirit Of Nationalism: Authors phillis wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John wheatley of Boston In 1767, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, phillis wheatley published her first poem in http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit04/authors-10.html

Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity Spirit of Nationalism Unit Overview Using the Video Authors ... Activities Authors: Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) ] Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston (1773), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-5316]. Phillis Wheatley Activities This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. In 1767, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, Phillis Wheatley published her first poem in The Mercury , a Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper. Three years later she composed an elegy on the death of the Reverend George Whitefield, the popular itinerant minister who had spread evangelical Christianity throughout the colonies. Published first in The Massachusetts Spy and eventually appearing in broadside and pamphlet form in New York, Philadelphia, Newport, and London, Wheatley's elegy for Whitefield brought her international recognition. Because her poetry was published as the work of "a Servant Girl . . . Belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley of Boston: And has been but 9 Years in this Country from Africa," Phillis's readers knew that she was an African American slave. By 1772, she had compiled a collection of twenty-eight poems that she hoped to publish as a book. Unfortunately, Wheatley's advertisements in the Boston newspapers seeking subscribers to help finance her proposed book yielded few patrons. With the help of Susannah Wheatley and the patronage of the Countess of Huntingdon, she then traveled to England, where her book

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Welcome to the Phillis Wheatley Community Library Rochester Public Library a member of the Monroe County Library System Phillis Wheatley Community Library 33 Dr Samuel McCree Way Rochester, NY 14608 (585) 428-8212 ABOUT OUR LIBRARY LIBRARY HOURS LIBRA LIBRARY CATALOG Send us your comments about the Phillis Wheatley Community Library Web Pages LIBRA Home Page Last updated on: April 22, 1999

51. Rare Books & Special Collections - University Libraries - USC The poems of phillis wheatley (17531784) are read and studied by students and scholars in a variety of disciplines (American literature, African-American http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.html

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST EDITION Searchable Facsimile by Vincent Carretta ... LIBRARIES HOME PHILLIS WHEATLEY’S POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS (1773) The poems of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) are read and studied by students and scholars in a variety of disciplines (American literature, African-American Studies, African Studies, and Women’s Studies), but the first edition has not previously been freely accessible in a digital facsimile without a fee or subscription. Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral The First Edition in Searchable Digital Facsimile RETURN TO TOP SITE INFORMATION This page updated August 31, 2007 by the University Libraries Webmaster 2007, the University of South Carolina. URL http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.htm l University Libraries The University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 Phone: 803-777-8154 Fax: 803-777-4661

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53. Encyclopedia Of Cleveland History:PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSN. The phillis wheatley ASSN. was established in 1911 in Cleveland as the Working Girls Home Assn. by JANE EDNA HARRIS HUNTER†. Hunter created the phillis http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=PWA

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55. America’s First African-American Poet - Phillis Wheatley - Poetry Two presidents held very different opinions about the former slave s poetic accomplishments, but America s first AfricanAmerican poet has engendered a http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30081.asp

forum radio shops sweeps ... Writing for Children All times in EST Autism Spectrum Disorders: 4:00 PM Full Schedule Poetry Site Jordan McCollum BellaOnline's Poetry Editor America’s First African-American Poet - Phillis Wheatley Guest Author - Linda Sue Grimes Phillis Wheatley’s first and only book of published poetry was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral ; it was published in England. There are two versions of the history of this book’s publication: one is that the Countess Selina of Huntington invited Phillis to London and found a publisher for the poet; the other is that Phillis suffered from asthma, and so the Wheatley family took her to England to recuperate, and while there, they sought publication of her work. In May 1968 one poem written by Phillis Wheatley brought $68,500 at Christie's auction, Rockefeller Center in New York. It had been estimated to bring between $18,000 and $25,000. The poem is titled "Ocean"; its seventy lines were written on three pages that had yellowed with time. It is thought to be the only copy. Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal, Africa in 1753. At age seven she was brought to America and sold to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston. She soon became a family member instead of a slave. The Wheatleys taught Phillis to read, and she was soon reading classic literature in Greek and Latin, as well as English. But her talent did not stop with reading, because she began to write poetry, influenced by the Bible and the English poets, particularly John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Thomas Gray.

56. Phillis Wheatley: A Life Of Triumph Over Obstacles -- Brown Quarterly -- V. 1, N phillis wheatley defied all expectations of her class, race, and gender to become an internationally celebrated poet. She wrote herself from the obscurity http://brownvboard.org/brwnqurt/01-1/01-1f.htm

Buffalo Soldiers Book Nook Volume 1, No. 1 (August 1996) Special Introductory Edition Phillis Wheatley: A Life of Triumph Over Obstacles Omofolabo Ajayi Click an image to read its caption. Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film and in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, presented "A Conversation with Phillis Wheatley" during the Brown Foundation's National Symposium entitled "American History Unmasked: Remembering Plessy vs. Ferguson" May 16-18, 1996. The following selection reproduces her article which was published in the Kansas Humanities Council's History Alive! Study Guide (1995) pp. 3-5. Phillis Wheatley defied all expectations of her class, race, and gender to become an internationally celebrated poet. She wrote herself from the obscurity of slavery into the annals of the American literary scene. Even though she later died in near obscurity, the words she wove in her lifetime immortalize her memory. Today, her works continue to generate interest from scholars and to inspire the student of life's struggles and achievements. When Phillis Wheatley landed in America on July 11, 1761, a frail West African girl barely 8 years old, she could not guess the extraordinary life that awaited her. As she stood on the auction block in Boston, she must have been terrified and no doubt confused by the strange faces and the strange language spoken around her. Brutally snatched from her homeland, she was now homeless, without a country, without a family, without identity. Based on the horrors she had experienced on the slave ship during the "middle passage," she could scarcely have imagined anything better awaiting herthat is provided she had strength left to do any imagining.

57. Heath Anthology Of American LiteraturePhillis Wheatley - Author Page Anonymous, Memoir and Poems of phillis wheatley, A Native African and a Slave (1834) William H. Robinson, phillis wheatley and Her Writings, 1984 http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Phillis Wheatley Known best for her Christian verses reflecting orthodox piety, Phillis Wheatley (Peters) in fact wrote on a wide variety of topics. A kidnapped African slave child, aged about seven years old, she was sold from the South Market in Boston to well-to-do Susanna Wheatley. She was raised in a pious Christian household, and the precocious child evidently experienced special, much-indulged comfort and only token slavery. (Phillis Wheatley was manumitted by October 18, 1773.) Tutored by family members, she quickly learned English, Latin, and the Bible, and she began writing in 1765, four years after arriving in Boston harbor. She wrote to Reverend Samson Occom, a converted Christian Mohican Indian minister, and she sent a poem to Reverend Joseph Sewall of Boston’s Old South Church. Both this letter and poem are not extant, but a poem from this early period remains: in 1767, when she was about thirteen or fourteen years old, Phillis Wheatley published her first verses in a Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper. By 1772 she had composed enough poems to advertise twenty-eight of them in The Boston Censor for February 29, March 14, and April 11. She hoped to publish a volume of her poems that year in Boston.

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59. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-84) phillis wheatley (Voices From the Gaps Women Writers of Color, The Life of phillis wheatley (Erin Hughes, student at Univ. of Connecticut) http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/w/wheatley1718.htm

Phillis Wheatley (1753?-84) General Resources Phillis Wheatley (Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota) Biographical Sketch: Phillis Wheatley (HTI) Phillis Wheatley (Univ. Delaware Library) Phillis Wheatley (Early American Earchive) -Includes a short biography of Wheatley and the electronic text of "On Being Brought from Africa to America." Phillis Wheatley: Precursor to American Abolitionism (Forerunner.com) with a bio and a poem. The Life of Phillis Wheatley (Erin Hughes, student at Univ. of Connecticut) Events In The Life Of Phillis (Erin Hughes, student at Univ. of Connecticut) A Letter from Phillis (Erin Hughes, student at Univ. of Connecticut) Writings Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Univ. of Oregon) Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (The Digital Schomburg) Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (HTI) An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr Samuel Cooper (Univ. of Virginia) A Voice of Her Own (American Treasures of the Library of Congress) ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF GREAT PROMISE (HTI) SLEEP (HTI) http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/w/wheatley1718.htm

60. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) As a child slave, phillis wheatley was shipped on the phillis to Boston from West Africa, possibly the Gambia river region, on July 11, 1761, http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/353.html

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. (On Being Brought from Africa to America) On Being Brought from Africa to America On Virtue To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister Notes on Life and Works As a child slave, Phillis Wheatley was shipped on the Phillis Africa London Packet Poems took place in Philadelphia two years later. See also The Poems of Phillis Wheatley . Rev. edn. Ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. 1966; Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. PS 866 W5A17 1989 Robarts Library. For biographical information, see pp. 2-13.

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