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Definition of Phillis wheatley
1. Noun. American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phillis Wheatley
Literary usage of Phillis wheatley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"NBHD The poems of phillis wheatley as Poems on various subjects, religious and
moral. By phillis wheatley. negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, ..."
2. A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919)
"phillis wheatley.—The first Negro to achieve distinction in literature in America
was Phillis Wheat- ley. This young woman was born in Africa, in Senegal, ..."
3. The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1865)
"phillis wheatley. BY L. MARIA CHILD. T)HILLIS WHEATLEY was born in Africa, and
X brought to Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 1761, ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Brought to America, and sold into slavery, 17C1. DIED in Boston, Mass., 1784.
POEMS. [Poems on Various Subjects, Religion* and Moral, by phillis wheatley, ..."
5. The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by Caroline May (1848)
"Let the candid decide which the chaplet should wear, The charms which destroy,
or the charms which repair. phillis wheatley MAY be regarded as a literary ..."
6. The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the by John Wesley Cromwell (1914)
"This phenomenon was phillis wheatley who was brought to this country from Africa
in 1761, when about seven years of age and sold in the streets of Boston as ..."
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