Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley
Episode Number 7
Season 1
Aired 2021-06-18
Overview Despite all the hardship of being a Black person in Colonial America, some Black people were able to defy the harsh conditions and create art. Today we're learning about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a large slice of the population and helped changed the ways that white Colonists thought about Black people.
Runtime 12 minutes
Absolute Number 0
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