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Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child ... the Wheatleys gave her the tools to learn reading and writing. By the ...
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‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began
lost deep in thought while writing at a desk. The sketch was inspired by the sketches of Scipio Moorhead, an enslaved man of African descent, according to The Met’s website. It covers the first ...
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum
In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... Wheatley strongly concurred with the argument put forth by Occum, writing that she was "greatly satisfied with your Reasons ...