The Phillis Wheatley Page

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( c. 1753-1784 )

Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects ( London, 1773 ) was the first published book by an African-American.
See The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Edited by John Shields. Oxford, 1988.
On-line Poems on Various Subjects.
Poems by Phillis Wheatley

About Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley from D. Campbell.
Phillis Wheatley From Documenting the South.
Phillis Wheatley From Voices from the Gaps.
Hypertext Versions of Wheatley's poems.

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