Phillis Wheatley
1753–1784
first African-American poet (1753–1784)
writer · poet · slave
Born in Senegambia
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Phillis Wheatley:
- Napoleon (1769–1821)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- George Washington (1732–1799)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)