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A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet

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The moving story of how the first published African-American female poet regained what had been taken away from her and from slaves in every single place: a voice of her own.

“We’ll call her Phillis.”

In 1761, a young African girl was once sold to the Wheatley circle of relatives in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to The us, she’d had the whole thing taken from her – her circle of relatives, her name, and her language.

But Phillis Wheatley was once no odd young girl. She had a passion to be informed, and the Wheatleys encouraged her, breaking with unwritten rule in New England to keep slaves illiterate. Amid the tumult of the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley changed into a poet and in the long run had a book of verse published, organising herself as the first African American woman poet this country had ever known. She also found what had been taken away from her and from slaves in every single place: a voice of her own.

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