Tracing the Life of Phillis Wheatley Peters
By Jay Moschella, Curator of Rare Books at the Boston Public Library. Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784) was an early American…
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A fresh look at a pioneering Black voice of Revolutionary America
David Waldstreicher started studying Wheatley around 2009, after he had finished his book “Slavery’s Constitution.” Read more at Boston.com.
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A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America
A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.
Source: nytimes.com