Phillis Wheatley
From Anarchopedia
Phillis Wheatley (died 1784 December 5, aged about 31 years, Boston, Massachussetts, USA) was a first black woman poet and, after Anne Bradstreet, only the second woman poet of note in the United States of America. The 39 poems in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, published in 1773 in England under the sponsorship of the Countess of Huntingdon, help spread her reputation in Europe as well as in America.
