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PHILLIS WHEATLEY ON TRIAL.(African American writer and poet Phillis Wheatley had to prove she wrote the works attributed to her)
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It was the primal scene of African-American letters. Sometime before October 8, 1772, Phillis Wheatley, a slim African slave in her late teens who was a published poet, met with eighteen of the most influential thinkers and politicians of the Massachusetts Colony. The panel had been assembled to verify the authorship of her poems and to answer a much larger question: Was a Negro capable of producing literature? The details of the meeting have been lost to history, but I've often imagined how it all might have happened. Phillis walks into a room--perhaps in Boston's Town Hall, the Old Colony House--and ...
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