Phillis: A Life of Phillis Wheatley
By Martha Hill Newell
Phillis: A Life of Phillis Wheatley is a play that needs 16 or more performers. Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 16 or more performers
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
We know relatively little about the young black woman who emerged as one of the first (probably the first) black poets of Colonial America. We know that she was kidnapped by slave traders in Senegal, West Africa, when she was 8. We know that she was bought by John and Susannah Wheatley, a cultured Boston family. We know that within a breathtakingly short span she learned to speak and read English and went on to learn Latin and write elegant classical poetry. Martha Hill Newell has taken Phillis'
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