Phillis Wheatley was taken by slavers as a small child. Her slaveowners in Massachusetts taught her to read and encouraged her gift for writing poetry. Read more about her in the American National Biography.
Published in 1887, this broadside was written for John Greenleaf Whittier's 80th birthday and includes two letters about its composition.
Call No. MS110
This letter is part of several in the American Friends' Letters Collection. It pertains mainly to slavery and the importance of the anti-Slavery movement in relation to the women's rights movement.
Call No. MS851 Box 18
The gift: a poetical remembrancer, selected from the works of native and foreign authors
Written by Whittier in 1837, this book of poetry was a controversial presentation of the issue of slavery during its time.
Call No. BX7723 .W62 P7 1837
Existing in a few editions, this 1838 collection of anti-slavery poems may contain illustrations and plates.
Call No. BX7723 .W62 P7 1838 and PS3267 .S3 1850a
The North Star: the Poetry of Freedom by her Friends
Published in 1840, this work features Quaker poets such as E.H. Whittier, W.J. Allinson, and J.G. Whittier and focuses on injustices of the trade of enslaved people and the quest for freedom.
Published in Salem, Ohio by The Anti-Slavery Bugle around 1845, this pamphlet contains Whittier poetry and is part of the Easter Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Tract.
Call No. BX7723.4 .W62 B8 1845
This is a first edition volume with an advertisement from May of 1850 at the front. This is a collection of various Whittier poems.
Call No. PS3267 .S3 1850
In addition to poems by Whittier, this 1866 collection includes poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Cullen Bryant.
Call no. BX7723.4.W62 N27 1866