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GENIUS IN BONDAGE: PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Come and hear this Presentation by leading scholar
Professor Vincent Carretta (University of Maryland, USA)
Friday 10 April @ 7.30pm (for 7.45pm)
Claudia Jones Organisation
103 Stoke Newington Road
LONDON, N16 8BX
EVENT ORGANISED BY THE EQUIANO SOCIETY
Phillis Wheatley (c1753 – 1784) was the first African woman to publish her poems in Britain. She had been enslaved by the Wheatley family of Boston, Massachusetts. Her poetry brought her great fame both in Britain and her North American colonies and her work was praised by figures such as George Washington and et al.
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