Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of Freed Slave and Author Phillis Wheatley, Paperback - Wendy Lawton

Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

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Reducere. This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

Reducere. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley w...

Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatle...

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Reducere. Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was boug...

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Reducere. With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

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With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

Reducere. The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

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