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Biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley is winner of George Washington Prize
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis ...
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Biography of poet wins $50,000 prize
The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum
In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...
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A NEGRO SERVANT'S POEMS.; Phillis Wheatley First Edition In Sale of H.A. Smith Library.
which Anderson's will sell on Jan. 20. One of these rarities is a first edition of "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of ...
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The incredible true story of the captured poet who wrote her way to freedom
Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women of history the exposure they deserve. This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley ... aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in ...
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
In other words, slavery was primarily about us, right, from Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker and Richard Allen, all the way to Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick ...