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Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by enslavers and brought to America in 1761. (source)