Did You Know The Work Of America’s First Black Poet Helped Abolition?– Meet Phillis Wheatley

Did You Know The Work Of America’s First Black Poet Helped Abolition?– Meet Phillis Wheatley

Essence Magazine:

By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated May 8, 2023

Phillis Wheatley was a well-known poet and literary sensation during the 18th century. 

Born in May 1753, she was kidnapped from Gambia, West Africa at about the age of 7 and brought to Boston, Massachusetts, where she was

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