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Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage
Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.
by
Vincent Carretta
via
The Public Domain Review
on
December 2, 2006
Book
Equiano, the African
: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Vincent Carretta
2007
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