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Lasky, Kathryn.
A VOICE OF HER OWN : THE STORY OF PHYLLIS WHEATLEY, SLAVE POET
Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2003.
IL K-3, RL 5.4
ISBN 0763602523
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Phillis Wheatley was a young African slave who was no ordinary girl. When she was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, they ignored the law that said slaves could not be educated. They encouraged her thirst for knowledge and allowed her to learn to read and write. Although educated like a white person, she was black on the outside and could never really be accepted into white society. She learned to live between these two worlds. Eventually, she wrote and published her first book of poetry. You will be inspired by this story of a truly remarkable woman who gave slaves a voice through her writing.  (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2005-2006)
SUBJECTS:     Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
                      Poets, American.
                      Slaves.
                      African Americans -- Biography.
                      Women -- Biography.

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