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Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...
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‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began
It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work ... Fielder said. After Wheatley’s emancipation and the later death of Susanna, Wheatley experienced this struggle for publication.