The Boston Women Memorial, Phillis Wheatley.
"The Boston Women's Memorial celebrates three important contributors to Boston's rich history - Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley. Each of these women had progressive ideas that were ahead of her time, was committed to social change, and left a legacy through her writings that had a significant impact on history".
Phillis Wheatley, born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship Phillis in colonial Boston, she was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral' was the first book published by an African writer in America..
Excerpt.… "in every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance ... the same Principle lives in us."
-Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom, February 11, 1774
The Boston Women Memorial, Phillis Wheatley.
"The Boston Women's Memorial celebrates three important contributors to Boston's rich history - Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley. Each of these women had progressive ideas that were ahead of her time, was committed to social change, and left a legacy through her writings that had a significant impact on history".
Phillis Wheatley, born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship Phillis in colonial Boston, she was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral' was the first book published by an African writer in America..
Excerpt.… "in every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance ... the same Principle lives in us."
-Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom, February 11, 1774