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Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
Phillis Wheatley ... Award-winning book The Age of Phillis, she seldom wrote about her own life in her poems. Despite her poems receiving recognition by prominent figures, Wheatley often had ...
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‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began
In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman ... It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and ...