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Hang a thousand trees with ribbons

the story of Phillis Wheatley

by Ann Rinaldi

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A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.

FictionPoetsJuvenile fictionSlavesAfrican AmericansWomen poetsHistory1000blackgirlbooksAfrican americans, fictionMassachusetts, history, fictionPoets, fictionChildren's fiction