Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was a slave in
Boston, Massachusetts, where her master's family taught her to
read and write, and encouraged her poetry. Her Poems on Various
Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first published book by an
African American. (It was published in London because Boston
publishers refused.) - When first thy pencil did these beaties
give And breathing figures learnt from thee to live - To A young
African painter from Poems on Various Subjects kindle ebook ASIN
B0083ZJ7SU - Creation smiles in various beauty gay While day to
night, and night succeeds day - Works of Providence from Poems
on Various Subjects kindle ebook ASIN B0083ZJ7SU - Some view our
sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd,
and join th' angelic train. - "On Being Brought from Africa to
America" lines 5-8, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and
Moral (1773) - But how is Mneme dreaded by the race, Who scorn
her warnings an