will discuss with Cornelia Dayton her groundbreaking article, recently published in the New England Quarterly, which uses a cache of Essex County legal papers to shed light on this period of Wheatley Peters’s life. In this conversation, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Though the early years of Phillis Wheatley’s life are well-established, the details of her life after she became Phillis Peters upon her marriage to John Peters, a free Black shopkeeper in Boston, have been more difficult to discern. You will be sent an email with a link and instructions on how to join the event upon registration. This online event is free, but registration is required.
Monday, November 1, 2021, at 7:00 PM ETĬosponsored by the Worcester Black History Project Dayton in conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Recovering the Lost Years of John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters"Ĭornelia H.
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