The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
2023-09-02T14:50:21-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvY2QxXC8wMDJcLzE2OTM2ODMyNjFfMDAyLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19Author David Waldstreicher talked about the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, who was enslaved as a child but learned to read and write and went on to become a published poet in colonial America. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted this event.
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