TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth 18th century ships a revolution

a revolution

The world knows well how Britain's love for tea gave rise to the crafting of their beloved tea culture

Join the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum on a 1-hour discussion detailing the consequences and aftermath of "the single most important event leading up to the American Revolution": The Boston Tea Party

Nestled among the Dartmouth’s cargo of East India Company tea was a crate of another kind

Mercy Otis Warren

TEA TALKS: A Most Precious Cargo: Phillis Wheatley's Books of Poetry & The Dartmouth 18th century ships a revolutionNestled among the Dartmouths cargo of East India Company tea was a crate of another kind. This one would hold a shipment of the newly published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral written by Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley was the first woman of African descent, and slave, and third woman in America to publish a book of poetry. Phillis wrote her first poem in 1765 and was published in 1767. Six years later in 1773, Phillis would publish her