In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published…
Author: Phillis Wheatley · Original publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001 (edited by Vincent Carretta) (ISBN 9780140424300)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1773; full text of the original work freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `3839-complete-writings-of-phillis-wheatley.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
