Phillis Wheatley
Chat with our AI personalities
First known African-American published author: Jupiter Hammon (poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries", published as a broadside)First known African-American woman to publish a book: Phillis Wheatley (Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral)
1819-1890
First black American to publish a book
It brought a brief end to conflict in the American Northwest until the Dakota War in 1862.
He published it in 1831.