Phillis Wheatley, American Poet(1753-1784)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Phillis Wheatley
• Birth: Unknown Date, 1753, West Africa
• Death: December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Language: English
• Who she was: first published African-American female poet who wrote Poems on Various Subjects (1773)

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