As America changed from a farming economy to an industrialized economy in the 19th century, those involved in big business and speculation began to make huge sums of money. Since…

Arriving in Boston aboard a slave ship in 1761, Phillis Wheatley began what would eventually be a storied life in American. Primary sources bring to life the story of America’s…

The former slave became America’s first African-American poet when her volume– Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral –was published in London. This is her story. Full color.