1753-1784

Describes teenage slave Phillis Wheatley's test in 1772 in which she had to prove that she was the author of a collection of poems.

A novelization of the life and hardships faced by Phillis Wheatley, whose home on the edge of the African desert was destroyed by slave traders, and, after she is sold to Susanna Wheatley, Phillis is taught to read and write poetry.

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.

Traces the life of the Black American poet who was born in Africa, brought over to New England as a slave, and published her first poem while still a teenager.

A brief biography of the slave who learned to read and write, became the second woman in America to have a book published, and won international fame for her poetry.