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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

David Waldstreicher

2023

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Drawing of Phillis Wheatley writing at a desk.

The Great American Poet Who Was Named After a Slave Ship

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on April 22, 2023

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