African American History and Women Timeline 1700-1799

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• a Pennsylvania law outlawing slavery was overturned by Britain's Queen Anne

• Lucy Terry wrote "Bar's Fight," the first known poem by an African American (it was not published until after Phillis Wheatley's poems were)

• Phillis Wheatley born (slave, poet, first published African American writer)

• Phillis Wheatley's book of poems published in England, making her the first published African American writer

• Vermont (not yet a state) outlawed slavery

• Massachusetts passed a law abolishing slavery and giving African American men (but not women) the right to vote

• (December 5) Phillis Wheatley died (poet, slave; first published African American writer)

• Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Mary, joins him in Paris, with Sally Hemings accompanying her to Paris

• Sarah Moore Grimke born (abolitionist, women's rights proponent)

• (January 3) Lucretia Mott born (Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate)

• Sojourner Truth (Isabella Van Wagener) born a slave (abolitionist, women's rights proponent, minister, lecturer)

Jone Johnson Lewis
Women's History Guide