Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral and A Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

These poems are from the first book of poetry published by an African-American author. Phillis was brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the Wheatley family, where she threw herself into education; soon she was writing verse of such a high calibre that she enchanted societal figures as lofty as George Washington.