Phillis Wheatley
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Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly, was an American writer who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold i
Portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed by some scholars to Scipio Moorhead
On being brought from africa to america
Phillis Wheatley's church, Old South Meeting House
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
Manumission
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Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historia
Phillis Wheatley
…appeared in London in the summer of 1773. As Hastings was ill, the two never met. After Phillis's book was published, by November 1773, the Wheatleys manumitted Phillis. Susanna Wheatley died in the spring of 1774, and John in 1778. Shortly after, Phillis met and married John Peters, an impoverished free black…
Relief depicting the manumission of two slaves, with pileus hats (1st century BC, Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium.
Original manumission for Gowan Pamphlet of the Colony of Virginia, which freed him from slavery. Signed by his owner, David Miller. c. 1793.
Letter where one can read that the slave Geraldo will be free with the condition of working for another 6 years (Brazil).