1753 – 1784

First Black American to become a published poet. Enslaved as a child and sold to a Boston family who emancipated her in 1773.

Poems on Various Subjects

1773 “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” by American slave Phillis Wheatley, is published in the UK; the first known book of poetry published by a Black woman [1]

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