

{"id":6600,"date":"2023-04-14T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:34:12","slug":"phillis-wheatley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/2023\/04\/14\/phillis-wheatley\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillis Wheatley: The First Published African-American Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-1024x301.jpg\" alt=\"Beyond the Notes Logo\" class=\"wp-image-6240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-1024x301.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo-768x226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2020\/11\/Black-Logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Beyond the Notes presents<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Songs of the People<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A Celebration of Women Composers from<\/strong> <strong>the African Diaspora<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Charles Library Event Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">All programs are free and open to all, and <a href=\"https:\/\/charlesstudy.temple.edu\/event\/10582162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registration<\/a> is encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Sally Hemings\u2026these names of famous Black women born into slavery in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries are familiar to most Americans. Fewer are familiar with a woman who predated all of these women and who helped open doors to other Black and enslaved peoples as the first published poet of African descent in American history. Phillis Wheatley\u2019s short but inspiring life and work inspired one of the works included in our upcoming program: Rosephanye Powell\u2019s set of three art songs, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nBARiplADu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miss Wheatley\u2019s Garden<\/a><\/em>. But who was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillis_Wheatley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phillis Wheatley<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg\" alt=\"Copperplate engraving of a young Black woman in profile, wearing colonial-era garb and sitting at a table. She holds quill to paper and holds her hand up to her face as though thinking of what to write next. Around the image reads, &quot;Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-6601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg 472w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frontispiece image to <em>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral<\/em> (1773) by Phillis Wheatley. This copperplate engraving is probably based on a portrait attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scipio_Moorhead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scipio Moorhead<\/a>, an enslaved Black man and artist to whom Wheatley appears to have dedicated a poem in the collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheatley (c. 1753\u20131784) was born in western Africa\u2014possibly in what is now Gambia or Senegal\u2014but was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of 7 or 8. Transported to Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up as a domestic slave for the Wheatley family for the remainder of her adolescence through young adulthood. Not long into her time with the Wheatleys, however, the family recognized her extraordinary intellectual gifts and shifted her responsibilities from housework to her own education. With the help of her owners\u2019 daughter, Mary, Wheatley learned to read and write, quickly developing an affinity for classical and religious literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resources provided by the Wheatleys allowed a young Phillis to find her own voice through poetry. Wheatley published her first poem in 1767, making her the first published African-American woman. However, she faced significant challenges in her attempts to publish her works. At this time publishing was often done on a subscription basis, with readers putting up money in the form of a subscription to fund the publication of works they wished to support. The white, literate public refused to believe that an enslaved teenager from Africa was truly the author of her works. Eventually she faced a board of eighteen prominent Bostonian men in order to prove herself. When her poems were eventually published, her master John wrote a testimonial attesting to her talents that was published alongside a list of the men who sat in judgment of Phillis, which included Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Phillis was brought from <em>Africa<\/em> to <em>America<\/em>, in the Year 1761, between Seven and Eight Years of Age. Without any Assistance from School Education, and by only what she was taught in the Family, she, in sixteen Months Time from her Arrival, attained the English Language, to which she was an utter Stranger before, to such a Degree, as to read any, the most difficult Parts of the Sacred Writings, to the great Astonishment of all who heard her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to her Writing, her own Curiosity led her to it; and this she learnt in so short a Time, that in the Year 1765, she wrote a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Occam, the <em>Indian<\/em> Minister, while in <em>England.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has a great Inclination to learn the Latin Tongue, and has made some Progress in it. This Relation is given by her Master who bought her, and with whom she now lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">JOHN WHEATLEY<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-To-the-Publick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-To-the-Publick.png\" alt=\"Printed title page from an antique book, it reads: &quot;To the PUBLICK. As it has been repeatedly suggested to the Publisher, by Persons, who have seen the Manuscript, that Numbers would be ready to suspect they were not really the Writings of PHILLIS, he has procured the following Attestation, from the most respectable Characters in Boston, that none might have the least Ground for disputing their Original.\n\nWE whose Names are under-written, do assure the World, that the Poems specified in the following Page, [asterisk] were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa, and has ever since been [unreadable], under the Disadvantage of serving as a Slave in a [unreadable] this Town. She has been examined by some of the best judges, and is thought qualified to write them.\n\nHis Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Governor, The Hon. Andrew Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor, The Hon. Thomas Hubbard, The Hon. John Erving, The Hon. James Pitts, The Hon. Harrison Gray, The Hon. James Bowdoin, John Hancock, Esq; Joseph Green, Esq; Richard Carey, Esq; The Rev. Charles Chauncey, D. D., The Rev. Mather Byles, D. D., The Rev. Ed. Pemberton, D. D., The Rev. Andrew Elliot, D. D., The Rev. Samuel Cooper, D. D., The Rev. Mr. Samuel Mather, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead, Mr. John Wheatley, her master.\n\nN. B. The original Attestation, signed by the above Gentlemen, may be seen by applying to Archibald Bell, Bookseller, No. 8, Aldgate Street.\n\n*The Words &quot;following Page,&quot; allude to the Contents of the Manuscript Copy, which are wrote at the Back of the above Attention.\n\" class=\"wp-image-6626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-To-the-Publick.png 369w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-To-the-Publick-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Following John Wheatley&#8217;s words in support of Phillis&#8217;s qualifications, this page demonstrates to the reader that &#8220;As it has been repeatedly suggested to the Publisher, by Persons, who have seen the Manuscript, that Numbers would be ready to suspect they were not really the Writings of PHILLIS, he has procured the following Attestation, from the most respectable Characters in <em>Boston<\/em>, that none might have the least Ground for disputing their <em>Original<\/em>.&#8221; From <em>Poems<\/em>, Wheatley. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When this still did not gain her the subscribers she needed, her owner\u2019s wife Susanna found her a potential patroness in the Countess of Huntingdon, who helped publish the book in England and to whom the volume, <em>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral<\/em>, was ultimately dedicated. The Wheatleys actually sent Phillis to London in 1773 with their son to oversee the publication of her poems, and while there she garnered fame and success, and met such prominent individuals as Benjamin Franklin and English abolitionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/abbey-commemorations\/commemorations\/granville-sharp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Granville Sharp<\/a>. An invitation to meet King George III had to be declined due to Wheatley\u2019s being summoned back to America due to Susanna\u2019s poor health. As a free woman, Wheatley stayed in the United States for the rest of her life, living in poor health and poverty, yet continuing to write. She died in childbirth at around the age of 31, having born no children who survived. While many details of her life remain uncertain, her work continues to be studied and celebrated. A selection of her written works can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amblesideonline.org\/poet-wheatley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-title-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-title-page.png\" alt=\"Printed title page from an antique book, it reads: &quot;Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England. London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King Street, Boston, 1773.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-6602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-title-page.png 381w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/files\/2023\/04\/Phillis-Wheatley-title-page-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On the title page of <em>Poems,<\/em> Phillis is identified as \u201cNegro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell poses Wheatley as an icon for Black women in poetry in her set of three songs, writing, &#8220;I thought it befitting to title the work <em>Miss Wheatley&#8217;s Garden<\/em> in honor of Phyllis [sic] Wheatley whose works are the garden in which many generations of African-American women poets have blossomed.&#8221;<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[2]<\/a> The poets who blossomed in Wheatley&#8217;s garden include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/frances-ellen-watkins-harper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/angelina-weld-grimke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Angelina Weld Grimk\u00e9<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/georgia-douglas-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia Douglas Johnson<\/a>, whose words Powell sets to music in this work. The texts of Grimk\u00e9 and Harper, \u201cI Want to Die While You Love Me\u201d and \u201cSongs for the People,\u201d respectively, can be heard in the upcoming concert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you will join us on Wednesday, April 19 for an afternoon of celebrating African-American women from Christine Anderson and friends for the final installment of our 2022\u20132023 Beyond the Notes concert series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Kaitlyn Canneto and Becca F\u00fcl\u00f6p<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/performingartsnews\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6600&amp;action=edit#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Wheatley, Phillis. <em>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral<\/em>. London: A. Bell, 1773.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[2]<\/a> Powell, Rosephanye. \u201cMiss Wheatley\u2019s Garden.\u201d rosephanyepowerll.com. Accessed April 14, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosephanyepowell.com\/art-songs\/miss-wheatleys-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rosephanyepowell.com\/art-songs\/miss-wheatleys-garden\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castellanos, Caroline. &#8220;Wheatley, Phillis (1753\u20131784).&#8221; In <em>Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas<\/em>, by Stewart R. King. Facts On File, 2012. Accessed April 12, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynn, Carole. &#8220;Wheatley, Phillis (1753 84).&#8221; In <em>The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment<\/em>, edited by Mark Spencer. Bloomsbury, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith, Cassander L. \u201cPhillis Wheatley.\u201d In <em>Great Lives From History: American Women<\/em>. [N.p.]: Salem Press, 2016. Accessed April 12, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.temple.edu\/catalog\/991006903649703811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wheatley, Phillis. <em>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. <\/em>London: A. Bell, 1773.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the Notes presents Songs of the People: A Celebration of Women Composers from the African Diaspora Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. 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