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1773: First published African American poet |
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Phillis Wheatley, first published African American author.
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A young member of the Old South congregation (forebears of the United Church of Christ), Phillis Wheatley becomes the first published African American author. "Poems on Various Subjects" is a sensation, and Wheatley gains her freedom from slavery soon after.
Modern African American poet Alice Walker says of her: "[She] kept alive, in so many of our ancestors, the notion of song."
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