First African-American Poet former slave Phillis Wheatley Oct 1, 1775
submitted by eyevra
on 03/25/17
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Phillis met an African-American Artist whom she married who painted her with such determination in her eyes. Phillis envisioned a multiracial society in which everyone had the same rights and freedoms, but this was not to come to be in her lifetime. She died in her 3rd child birth in 1784, the year after the end of the American Revolution at the age of 31. She launched a tradition of poetry that many thousands would later follow.
