Statue honoring African American poet Phillis Wheatley in Boston, Massachusetts
Inscription:
Phillis Wheatley Ca. 1753-1784
Born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship “Phillis” in colonial Boston, she was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” was the first work published by an African writer in America.
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