Phillis Wheatley: The Girl Who Wrote Her Way To Freedom [Large Print]

By Bunmi Oyinsan

Discover the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, a young African girl who became one of the most important literary figures of eighteenth-century America.

Captured from her home in the Senegambia region of West Africa and brought to Boston as an enslaved child, Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write at a time when literacy was denied to most enslaved people. Her extraordinary ability with words led her to poetry, and in 1773 she became the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry.

Phillis Wheatley: The Girl Who Wrote Her Way to Freedom introduces young readers to her remarkable life through an engaging fictionalized retelling grounded in the history of her time. Through accessible storytelling and colourful illustrations, children encounter a young girl whose intelligence, determination, and literary gifts challenged assumptions about race, gender, and who had the right to be heard.

Part of the Legends of Africa series, the book connects African and African diaspora history, tracing a life that stretched from West Africa across the Atlantic to colonial America. It introduces young readers to themes of enslavement, literacy, freedom, poetry, and the extraordinary power of the written word.

Written for children ages 6-10, the book can be read aloud with younger readers or explored independently by older children. It is particularly well suited to homes, classrooms, and libraries looking for engaging resources on Black history, women's history, African American history, African diaspora history, poetry, literacy, and important figures from the African past and diaspora.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990288049
• ISBN13: 9781990288043
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Nurturing Minds Academy
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5