Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poetess : production material, ca. 1971.

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Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poetess : production material, ca. 1971.

Ink and pencil sketch, pencil sketches, scratchboard sketches. Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7814961

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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