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| [00:05.96]Philtis Wheattey's first major work was "An Elegiac Poem on the Death of the Celebrated Divine." [00:14.52]It waspublished in 1770. [00:17.53]Phillis wrote the long poem to honor a famous clergyman who had died. [00:22.96]Phillis wrote mostly about religion and morals. [00:27.85]Many of her poems were created at the request of someone to honor a family member who had died. [00:34.80]Her poems are representative of the times. [00:38.58]They expressed common reactions to personal events such as deaths or marriages. [00:44.98]Or they honored public events such as battles. [00:48.51]Phillis had an unusual life fora slave. [00:52.48]Mrs.Wheatley had stopped having Phillis do house cleaning jobs. [00:56.95]She made sure Phillis had time to study and to visit the family friends. [01:03.50]But Phillis was not permitted to make friends with other uneducated slaves. [01:09.43]So she remained separate from both white and black worlds. [01:15.31]While she was considered above the other black slaves, she was never considered an equal of white slave owners. [01:24.48]One time she was invited to dinner in the home of one of Mrs.Wheatley's relations. [01:30.70]The servants said that it was the first time they ever carried food to a woman with skin their color. [01:38.69]But Phillis usually sat at a table separate from the white people at a dinner party. [01:44.88]Phillis Wheatley became famous in Europe as well as in America. [01:50.55]She travelled to London in 1773 and gave poetry readings there. [01:57.00]She was twenty years old. [01:59.67]The writings of the young slave from Africa surprised everyone. [02:04.68]During her visit in London,she was to have been presented to King George the third. [02:10.53]But she received urgent news from America. [02:14.19]Mrs. Wheatley was very sick and had asked that Phillis return to Boston. [02:19.05]Phillis returned home quickly. [02:21.45]That meant she missed the publication in London of her book poems on various subjects, religious and moral. [02:29.73]It contained thirty-eight of her poems. [02:33.44]It was the first published book written by a black person in America. [02:37.86]And it was only the second book written by an American woman. [02:42.32]Newspapers in London highly praised her poems. [02:46.74]Her book sold very well there and later in America. [02:51.47]Phillis Wheatley had one more brief period of being famous. [02:57.01]In 1775, she wrote a poem about George Washington. [03:03.56]He had become commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution. [03:10.04]The poem was called "His Excellency General Washington." [03:15.27]It called Washington "first in peace and honors." [03:20.72]She sent her poem to him. [03:23.10]Some time later,she was invited to visit George Washington in his headquarters. [03:30.02]It was an unusual visit between a black woman poet and a military commander. [03:37.03]Phillis took care of Susannah during her Iong final sickness. [03:42.15]When Mrs. Wheatley died in March, 1774, Phillis wrote that she had lost a friend and parent. [03:50.09]After Susannah's death, Phillis was freed by the Wheatley family. [03:54.66]But her life became more difficult. [03:57.61]She married John Peters, a free black man. [04:01.14]He failed in many business attempts. [04:04.24]Their three children died at a very young age. [04:07.69]Phillis tried to publish another book of her poems. [04:11.74]But now that she was free, she had lost her appeal as a slave poet. [04:17.12]Phillis Wheatley died poor and alone in 1784. |
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