[Public Domain Review] Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage

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Transported as a slave from West Africa to America when just a child,
Phillis Wheatley published in 1773 at the age of 20 her Poems on
Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Vincent Carretta takes a look
at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be
published.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/02/06/phillis-wheatley-an-eighteenth-century-genius-in-bondage/

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