TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth 18th century ships Nestled among the Dartmouth’s cargo

Nestled among the Dartmouth’s cargo of East India Company tea was a crate of another kind

and third woman in America to publish a book of poetry

Mercy Otis Warren

Please note: This prerecorded webinar was originally broadcast on Wednesday September 16

Phillis would publish her famed book of poetry

TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth 18th century ships Nestled among the Dartmouth’s cargoNestled among the Dartmouths cargo of East India Company tea was a crate of another kind. This one would hold a shipment of the newly published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral written by Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley was the first woman of African descent, and slave, and third woman in America to publish a book of poetry. Phillis wrote her first poem in 1765 and was published in 1767. Six years later in 1773, Phillis would publish her