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Wheatley, Phillis
Wheatley, Phillis ( ?1735 – 84 ),a black poet born in Africa and shipped as a child to the slave-market of Boston, where she was purchased by John Wheatley , who encouraged her literary talent. Her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral were first published in London in 1773 .
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