Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral and a Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

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In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley family. There, she threw herself into education,...