The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

129 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging reflective slow-paced
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In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley w...

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