A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies (The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet)

The moving story of how the first published African-American female poet regained what had been taken away from her and from slaves everywhere: a voice of her own.

"We’ll call her Phillis."

In 1761, a young African girl was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to America, she’d had everything taken from her - her family, her name, and her language.

But Phillis Wheatley was no ordinary young girl. She had a passion to learn, and the Wheatleys encouraged her, breaking with unwritten rule in New England to keep slaves illiterate. Amid the tumult of the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley became a poet and ultimately had a book of verse published, establishing herself as the first African American woman poet this country had ever known. She also found what had been taken away from her and from slaves everywhere: a voice of her own.

This book title, A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies (The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet), ISBN: 9780763660918, by Kathryn Lasky, Paul Lee, published by Candlewick Press (September 11, 2012) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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