Phillis Wheatley Peters

1700s
Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Arrived on the slave ship Phillis

  • Wheatley was her enslaver’s name

  • She’ was never known as Phillis Wheatley Peters (either Phillis Wheatley or Phillis Peters), but scholars have begun attaching Peters (read why here)

  • African American poet — first one published!

  • Internationally known (even by George Washington)

  • The war impacted the distribution of her work (many of her readers were Loyalists and her work was published in England, so there you go)

Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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