History of the United States I / Unit 7 USH1 0913 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Phillis Wheatley
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The idea
Phillis Wheatley was manumitted in seventeen seventy-three at twenty-one, and published poetry that circulated on both sides of the Atlantic.
In practice
Her line that it was mercy brought her from her pagan land.
Where people slip
Read her against Jefferson's dismissal of her. The anchor places them together, and the pairing is the point.
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