With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview on John Stone Street with the point,

the day, December 5th, we remember poet Phyllis Wheatley on the day of her death in 1784,

at just 31 years old. Born in Senegal, Africa, she was captured and brought to America as a

small child, purchased by Boston Businessman John Wheatley. Wheatley and his family quickly

recognized her intellectual gifts and an amazing move at the time decided to educate her.

Reading, writing, greek, Latin, theology, literature, history, and poetry, still in her teens

Wheatley published a collection of poems that made her a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic.

She was the first woman of African descent to ever publish a book of poetry and the first

slave. As Vincent Coretta noted in his biography of Wheatley, the Bible played a central

role in developing her craft. Her inborn talents were amplified by the influence of the

scriptures and the Christian emphasis on literacy and the evangelization of all people.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.