As per our current Database, Phillis Wheatley has been died on Dec 5, 1784 (age 31).
When Phillis Wheatley die, Phillis Wheatley was 31 years old.
| Popular As | Phillis Wheatley |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Age | 31 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 8, 1753 (Senegal) |
| Birthday | May 8 |
| Town/City | Senegal |
| Nationality | Senegal |
Phillis Wheatley’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Phillis Wheatley was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Credited as the first African American woman to be published, she became famous for her 1773 poetry collection, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral."
She traveled from her native West Africa to Massachusetts on a slave ship in 1761. She was sold to a family who taught her how to read and write and actively encouraged her literary talent. She was finally emancipated by her former owners, the Wheatleys, in 1778.
Many found it hard to believe that she wrote the poems ascribed to her, and she had to defend her authorship in court.
She married fellow freed slave, John Peters, in 1778. The couple suffered greatly from both poverty and racism, and just hours after Wheatley's death at the age of thirty-one, her infant son also passed away. She raised two other children.
Frederick Douglass was another freed slave who became a famous author.
