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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Sun Oct 18, 2020, 11:22 PM Oct 2020

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245 years ago today Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet and the first to publish a boo

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Carla Hayden
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245 years ago today Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet and the first to publish a book, was freed from slavery. The @librarycongress Rare Books Division collection incl her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2018/01/phillis-wheatley-a-first-for-verse-in-america/

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245 years ago today Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet and the first to publish a boo (Original Post) soothsayer Oct 2020 OP

KNR, and thank you so very much for posting. niyad Oct 2020 #1

Talented and courageous woman, thanks for the post appalachiablue Oct 2020 #2

Thank you for highlighting such an important day in the life of a remarkable woman. RestoreAmerica2020 Oct 2020 #3

K&R diva77 Oct 2020 #4

And a good day it was ... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #5

niyad

(113,275 posts)

1. KNR, and thank you so very much for posting.

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Sun Oct 18, 2020, 11:56 PM

Oct 2020

appalachiablue

(41,131 posts)

2. Talented and courageous woman, thanks for the post

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Sun Oct 18, 2020, 11:58 PM

Oct 2020

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)

3. Thank you for highlighting such an important day in the life of a remarkable woman.

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Mon Oct 19, 2020, 12:30 AM

Oct 2020

Paz.

diva77

(7,640 posts)

4. K&R

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Mon Oct 19, 2020, 12:33 AM

Oct 2020

electric_blue68

(14,888 posts)

5. And a good day it was ...

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Mon Oct 19, 2020, 01:53 AM

Oct 2020

Her name sounds very vaguely familiar.

I love seeing the opened pages of the book with her engraved portrait. That's exciting.

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