This Day in Black History: Jan. 21, 1773

Poet Phillis Wheatley is freed.  
By Britt Middleton
Posted: 01/21/2012 07:00 AM EST
Filed Under National News, This Day in Black History, slavery

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Phillis Wheatley, who was born a slave in 1745, was freed on this day. She published her first book of poems, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, that year, making her the first African-American to have her writing published.


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