Research Guides: ENGL 150: Animate Objects (HC) Spring 2015: Phillis Wheatley in Special Collections

Rare Books and Manuscripts

Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral by Phyillis Wheatley, 1773
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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.
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley: a native African and a slave
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The 1835 2nd edition, including an unsigned memoir of Wheatley's life.
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley: a native African and a slave. Also Poems by a slave
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Also includes "Poems by a slave" by George Moses Horton. This is the third edition.
Letter to Arbour Tanner
A May 19, 1772 letter from Wheatley to a friend, relating her religious views.