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
Jupiter Hammon
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Jupiter Hammon was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American man in North America. He
Phillis Wheatley
…both in England and the American colonies. Prominent figures, such as George Washington, praised her work. A few years later, African-American poet Jupiter Hammon praised her work in a poem of his own. Wheatley was emancipated by the Wheatleys shortly after the publication of her book of poems. The Wheatleys died…
Hammon's Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, 1806
Hammon's "An Evening Thought", 1761