‘To his Excellency General Washington’ By Phillis Wheatley

http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/wheatley.htm Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish and the first American woman to try to support herself through her writing. After learning to speak, read, and write English with remarkable ease, Phillis Wheatley began to compose poetry, and the verse that made her reputation was an elegy for George Whitefield, a Methodist … Continue reading ‘To his Excellency General Washington’ By Phillis Wheatley