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Phillis Wheatley published
1773
Boston, Massachusetts
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Kidnapped from West Africa around age seven and enslaved in Boston, she learned Greek and Latin and became the first African American to publish a book of poetry. No printer would take it until eighteen prominent men examined her in person and certified that she had written it herself.
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