STORIES OF INSPIRATION
I choke up just about every time I talk about it. she was an enslaved person when she published it, and she did it before the age of 20.
Davu Seru, curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota Libraries, which includes the first book published by an African American in the United States, Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
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