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Here you will see some events from 1710-1800's in Phillis Wheatleys life.
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Phillis Wheatley was born in Gambia, Africa in 1753
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Wheatley was brought to British-ruled Boston, Massachusetts on on a slave ship called The Phillis,
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She wrote her poems an Address to the Atheist and An Address to the Deist.
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She wrote her most known work which was "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (written 1768)
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She wrote her poem "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty"
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Phillis Wheatley wrote her first poem when she was thirteen years old.
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Wheatley wrote a poetic tribute to George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim.
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She wrote her poem A Poem of the Death of Charles Eliot
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The poetess gained freedom from slavery, on October 18, 1773.
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Wheatley was sent to London with Nathaniel Wheatley to recover her health
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Her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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Phillis Wheatley married free black John Peters and settled in Delaware.
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She wrote her book "To His Excellency George Washington"
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An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and the Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Liberty and Peace.
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She dies in December, 1784 before her third child was born and her husband left her
