Books A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time - and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called "On Being Brought From Africa to America," which began with praise for the "mercy" that brought her from "my Pagan land" into Christian redemption.
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