Phillis Wheatley in London, Summer 1773

This mini-lecture introduces the itinerary of early Black American woman poet Phillis Wheatley’s six weeks in London 250 years ago in the summer of 1773, sharing the sights and scenes she toured and considering her perspectives in prose and poetry on Great Britain and America unknowingly on the verge of the American Revolution.

The State Park Service offers this program as part of a series “Early Black American Women in Words” supported by New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, for the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley’s journey to England in 1773 and publication of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.