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Phillis Wheatley

by Cynthia Salisbury · 2001

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Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisslaveryslaveryMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
colonial Americacolonial AmericaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 112 pages

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