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Phillis Wheatley
first African-American poet (1753–1784)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1753
- Died
- 5 December 1784
- Place of birth
- Senegambia
- Place of death
- Boston
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Phillis
- Family name
- Wheatley
- Field of work
- poetry
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Congregational churches
- cause of death
- puerperal disorders
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Dictionary of African Biography, Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character, African American Authors, 1745-1945 (1st edition), The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers (1st edition), Notable Black American Women, American Women Writers, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Women poets in pre-Revolutionary America, 1650-1775 : an anthology, The Encyclopedia Americana, The American Cyclopædia
- end of work period
- 1784
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Phillis Wheatley
- named after
- The Phillis
- notable work
- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
- place of burial
- Copp's Hill Burying Ground
- residence
- Boston
- start of work period
- 1767
- time period
- American Revolution
- writing language
- English
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