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Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave

Also, Poems by a slave

by Phillis Wheatley, Margaretta Matilda Odell · 1834

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Poems and letters of the first significant black American writer who knew no English when she was brought from Africa to Boston as a child in the eighteenth century.

PoetryBiographyAfrican American womenWomen slavesAfrican American women poetsAfrican American poetsSlavesSlaves' writings, AmericanWomen as authorsCritique et interprétationColonial periodBlacks as authors