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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

Henry Louis Gates, W E B DuBois Professor of Humanities Chair of Afro-American Studies and Director of the W E B DuBois Institute for for Afro-American Research Henry Louis Gates, Jr — 2003
Traces the roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in the shaping of African-American literary tradition, discussing Wheatley's rise to fame and Jefferson's disputed role as the father of the black freedom struggle.
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