Hosted by the Topsfield Historical Society Wednesday, November 15 at 7:30pmOn zoom Register here ZOOM BOOK DISCUSSION Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in BondageBy Vincent Carretta And can I then but prayOthers may never feel tyrannic sway? While the Boston Patriots claimed that the British Empire was treating Americans as slaves, Phillis Wheatley, … Continue reading Topsfield Historical Society Event | Reading the Revolution, a book discussion on Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage on 11/15/23
Event | Remembering Phillis on 4/7/22
Hosted by Revolutionary Spaces April 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm at the Old South Meeting House Register here Join Revolutionary Spaces for a celebration of Phillis Wheatley Peters — a literary prodigy in 18th century Boston who became the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry. Spending most of her life enslaved, … Continue reading Event | Remembering Phillis on 4/7/22
ABB Event | John Peters & Phillis Wheatley Peters: The Middleton Years, a talk by Dr. Cornelia Dayton on 2/24/22
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Next up in our What Happened Here speaker series: A free Black couple move to a town north of Boston and are run out by its residents Thursday, February 24, 2022 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET Register here Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753 – 1784) was enslaved and educated in … Continue reading ABB Event | John Peters & Phillis Wheatley Peters: The Middleton Years, a talk by Dr. Cornelia Dayton on 2/24/22