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first African-American poet (1753–1784)
Also known as: Philis Wheatley, Phillis Peters, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Phyllis Wheatley, Филлис Уитли, فيليس ويتلي
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- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Complete writings (2001)
- Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave (1834)