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Phillis Wheatley statue in Back Bay, Boston

Born – 1753, Senegambia Africa

 

Died – December 5, 1784, Boston MA

 

She was the first published American poet. This shows a detail of her statue at the Boston Women’s Memorial in the Back Bay on Commonwealth Avenue.

 

Three of her poems:

 

» On Imagination

 

» On Being Brought from Africa to America

 

» On Recollection

 

2008 photo above of statue in Boston's Back Bay made available by Wikimedia Commons at this page.

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Uploaded on September 14, 2009
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