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A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies - The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet (Paperback)
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A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies - The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet (Paperback)
Series: Candlewick Biographies
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Discovery Miles 1 600
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"Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the
pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world."
-- BOOKLIST
"We'll call her Phillis."
In 1761, a young African girl was sold to the Wheatley family in
Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had
carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to
America, she'd had everything taken from her - her family, her
name, and her language.
But Phillis Wheatley was no ordinary young girl. She had a passion
to learn, and the Wheatleys encouraged her, breaking with unwritten
rule in New England to keep slaves illiterate. Amid the tumult of
the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley became a poet and
ultimately had a book of verse published, establishing herself as
the first African American woman poet this country had ever known.
She also found what had been taken away from her and from slaves
everywhere: a voice of her own.
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