'The mother of African American literature': Remembering Phillis Wheatley
It was a testimony to freedom: “Can I then but pray,” she wrote, “Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” You might know her as the woman forever poised in thought at Boston’s Women’s Memorial between Fairfield and Gloucester Streets on Commonwealth Ave. What each passerby might not know is the extraordinary story she has shared with her flawlessly balanced feather quill — and the stories she continues to inspire. America’s first Black poet, Phillis Wheatley was born on May 8, 1753, in The Gambia where she grew up until she was kidnapped at about age 7 or 8. After crossing...
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