TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth boston tea party story and anything and everything else

and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her

“The most magnificent movement of all”

and two of his sons

and then dives deeply into the movement

This presentation is offered in partnership with the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and #livebostonclassroom programming

TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth boston tea party story and anything and everything elseNestled 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