The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley: America'S First Black Poet And Her Encounters With The Founding Fathers,New Kirchner And Save Packleader From Huge

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The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley: America'S First Black Poet And Her Encounters With The Founding Fathers,New Kirchner And Save Packleader From HugeIn 1773, The Slave Phillis Wheatley Literally Wrote Her Way To Freedom. The First Person Of African Descent To Publish A Book Of Poems In English, She Was Emancipated By Her Owners In Recognition Of Her Literary Achievement. For A Time, Wheatley Was The Most Famous Black Woman In The West. But Thomas Jefferson, Unlike His Contemporaries Ben Franklin And George Washington, Refused To Acknowledge Her Gifts As A Writer A Repudiation That Eventually