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Greene, Carol.

Phillis Wheatley : first African-American poet / by Carol Greene. - Chicago : Children's Press, 1995. - 47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - A Rookie biography .

Includes index.

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Introduces the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

3. 1-3.

0516442694 (pbk.) 0516042696

94037516 /AC


Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 --Biography--Juvenile literature.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.


Afro-American women poets--Biography--Juvenile literature.--18th century
Women slaves--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
African American poets--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Slaves--Biography.--United States

PS866.W5 / Z597 1995

811/.1 B

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