Season 1, Episode 7

Phillis Wheatley

Air Date: 2021-06-18

Overview: Despite all the hardship of being a Black person in Colonial America, some Black people were able to defy the harsh conditions and create art. Today we're learning about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a large slice of the population and helped changed the ways that white Colonists thought about Black people.

Runtime: 12 minutes