12 Women Who Shaped America: 1619 to 1920

Phillis Wheatley Peters, Founding Poet (1x1)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Φεβ 25, 2022

Before the age of eight, Phillis Wheatley Peters was kidnapped, forced to endure the Middle Passage, and sold into slavery. By the age of 21, she was a published poet, lauded by the intellectual giants of the new American Colonies. Travel back in time to colonial Boston and discover the woman whose words made her one of the very first professional Black writers in the United States.