Book Description
for Phillis Wheatley by Jacquelyn McLendon
From the Publisher
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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