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Many of her poems were written on the occasion of births and deaths. Some biographers point to her use of natural imagery, in such poems as On Imagination , as a reference to her African heritage. John Wheatley sent the manuscript to the London bookseller Archibald Bell, who showed to to the countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings. Shortly after Phillis returned to Massachusetts, her mistress Susannah died on March 3, In late on a visit to her black woman friend Obour Tanner in Rhode Island, Phillis wrote a poem about George Washington and sent it to him.
Upon his request, she met with him in Cambridge. During this time Phillis also met fellow patriot Benjamin Franklin, over the objections of staunch loyalists John and Nathaniel Wheatley. In March John Wheatley died at the age of One month later Phillis married John Peters, a Boston grocer and free black that had been a merchant, lawyer and physician. However, Peters disdained any work beneath his self-perceived dignity and soon drove the family into poverty.
After being unable to publish a second book because of racism and the disruption of the revolution, Phillis began doing heavy work at a boarding house. She had already lost two children to serious illness. On December 5, Phillis died in Boston at the age of Her third child died shortly thereafter, and both were buried at an unknown location.
At the time of her death Phillis Wheatley was collecting another volume of poems to be dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. However, the manuscript was borrowed and John Peters was unable to recover it. Author: Sarah K. Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Or who can describe the swiftness of thy course? Gates Jr. The New Yorker Jan. Edward T. Cambridge, MA. Shields, John C. Indiana UP, The work, a story about two men who nearly drown at sea, was printed in the Newport Mercury.
Other published poems followed, with several also being published, further increasing Wheatley's fame. In , Wheatley gained considerable stature when her first and only book of verse, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral , was published, with the writer having received patronage from Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, in England. As proof of her authorship, the volume included a preface in which 17 Boston men, including John Hancock , asserted that she had indeed written the poems in it.
Poems on Various Subjects is a landmark achievement in U. In publishing it, Wheatley became the first African American and first U. A strong supporter of America's fight for independence, Wheatley penned several poems in honor of the Continental Army's commander, George Washington. Wheatley sent one of said works, written in , to the future president, eventually inspiring an invitation to visit him at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wheatley accepted the offer and visited Washington in March of Wheatley had traveled to London to promote her poems and received medical treatment for a health ailment that she had been battling.
After her return to Boston, Wheatley's life changed significantly. While ultimately freed from slavery, she was devastated by the deaths of several Wheatley family members, including Susanna d. In , Wheatley married a free African American from Boston, John Peters, with whom she had three children, all of whom died in infancy.
Their marriage proved to be a struggle, with the couple battling constant poverty.
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