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At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of Afr

It all began around 1492 when Giovanni Caboto, an Italian, changed his name to John Cabot and settled in Bristo, England with his wife Mattea and their three so

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley