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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A moving celebration of the mother of African American literature, from the pen of a master storyteller and scholar. The slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom when, in 1773, she became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English language. The toast of London, lauded by Europeans as diverse a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465027293
ISBN-10: 0465027296
Publication Date: 4/2003
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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