"A PHILLIS rises, and the world no more Denies the sacred right to mental pow’r; While, Heav’n-inspir’d, she proves her Country’s claim To Freedom, and her own to deathless Fame."
— Phillis Wheatley

January 1, 1970

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Matilda, 'On reading the Poems of Phillis Wheatly, the African Poetess', The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository (October 1796), p. 550