✊🏿ap african american studies review

Phillis Wheatley

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An 18th-century poet whose visions of future freedom and mobility after abolition are recognized as an early example of Afrofuturism.

AP course connection

Topic 4.21: 4.21 Black Studies, Black Futures, and Afrofuturism

Unit 4