Phillis Wheatley
A Revolutionary Poet
The Library of American Lives and Times
Phillis Wheatley was just another child kidnapped into slavery from Senegal, until she began to show enormous intellectual promise, eventually shocking a room of Boston scholars by translating Ovid at the age of fourteen. Wheatley would go on to become a major voice in the American literary scene and would pave the way for African American writers to come.
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