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Phillis Wheatley

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Noun1.Phillis Wheatley - American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)Phillis Wheatley - American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)
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Finally, the third section presents examples of textual materials in order to provide students with hands-on practical experience, including excerpts of Jane Austen's Mansfield's Park, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as other writings from Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Cary, Phillis Wheatley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Marianne Moore.
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Phillis Wheatley was the second African American slave to have risen above the shackles of slavery to emerge as a writer as well as the first African American female writer to be published in the United States in 1773 with her book Poems on Various Subjects published two years before the start of the American Revolutionary War during which she became a strong supporter of independence.
Phillis Wheatley the Life and Poetry of the First Black Female Slave ... by Arthur Edgar E. Smith / Arts, visual and performing community
A letter signed by slave poet Phillis Wheatley was sold to a private collector of African American literature and art for $253,000 by New York-based Swann Auction Galleries in November 2005, making it the highest amount paid for a letter written by an African American, and possibly by a woman Written in 1776 to Wheatley's friend and fellow slave Obour Tanner, the two-page document spoke of the American Revolution.
A letter signed by slave poet Phillis Wheatley was sold to a private ... by Brown, Ann / Black Enterprise
 
 
 
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