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February 11, 2013
A Principle which we call Love of Freedom
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In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliver...
December 5, 2012
Death of Phillis Wheatley: cease my song
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She was born free and given a name lost to history but was renamed Phillis Wheatley when she was brought to the New World and enslaved. H...
February 10, 2011
Washington and Wheatley: a parcel of papers
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From his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts , General George Washington wrote to his one-time aide-de-camp Joseph Reed on February 1...
October 26, 2010
Wheatley: I have taken the freedom
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From his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Washington received a letter from a 20-something named Phillis Wheatley , dated ...
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May 7, 2010
Wheatley says farewell to America
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Phillis Wheatley wrote the poem "Farewell to America" on May 7, 1773, addressed to her master Mrs. Susanna Wheatley. Susanna ha...
March 5, 2010
Phillis Wheatley and the first martyr of the American Revolution
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The Boston Massacre was one of several events that eventually pushed American colonists into the Revolutionary War with their mother country...
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