<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans</I>

Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784

Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston, Massachusetts. She was named after the slave ship on which she was transported to the Americas and the name of her enslavers, but her surname of Peters is that of the man she married in 1778—John Peters, a free man of color.

Date: 1834
Type: hardcover books
Medium: ink on paper with cloth and cardboard
Department: NMAAHC
Institution: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number: nmaahc_A2021.113.1.21
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans</I>

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