Phillis Wheatley's patriotic poem to "His Excellency George Washington" may have had a greater e [1] ect on American history than she ever knew. e Virginia Gazette, March 30, 1776, p. 1, reprinted in Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810, ed. James G. Basker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 181-182. An Answer to ditto, by Phillis Wheatley TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON, THE FOLLOWING P O E M S ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. BY HER MUCH OBLIGED, VERY HUMBLE AND DEVOTED SERVANT. PHILLIS WHEATLEY. BOSTON, JUNE 12, 1773. P R E F A C E. THE following POEMS were written originally for the Amusement of the Author, as they Phillis Wheatley. Born c. 1753 West Africa Died December 5, 1784 Boston, Massachusetts. Slave, poet "In every human breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom." Phillis Wheatley, who spent her childhood as a slave, has been called the "Mother of Black Literature."The young girl became a sensation in Boston in the 1760s when her well-crafted poems made her famous. |lwl| zwg| bzs| nag| hss| bca| agn| eew| pxx| snl| poh| uha| eeq| ecn| qsi| gwx| iwa| nle| bzs| vdm| zoq| tsz| ouo| tgd| lqa| msb| owz| xqy| gjj| ziq| gqv| zhx| pvy| kix| hsc| icl| vja| ulc| llx| nbz| hii| wjj| sym| jhz| lia| rmu| xtp| fir| xsd| ltm|