Story of Phillis Wheatley by Shirley Graham Du Bois

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Story of Phillis Wheatley

Shirley Graham Du Bois with Robert Burns (Illustrator)

176 pages 1949

2 editions

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Biography of Phillis Wheatley, a Boston slave girl who read the poets, wrote poetry, and translated Ovid at fifteen; despite being female and a slave, she was well received by George Washington and Governor Hutchinson. 

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