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Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of 7 and sold into slavery. At 19, she became the first black American poet to publish a book, on which this volume is based. Wheatley''s elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses into the origins of African-American literary traditions.

Wheatley P Poems of Phillis Wheatley

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    A Paperback / softback by Ellen Hatch Brewster, Phillis Wheatley

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      Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
      Publication Date: 25/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780486475936, 978-0486475936
      ISBN10: 048647593X
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      Book Synopsis
      Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of 7 and sold into slavery. At 19, she became the first black American poet to publish a book, on which this volume is based. Wheatley''s elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses into the origins of African-American literary traditions.

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