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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (title page and frontispiece)
Phillis Wheatley
11.7 cm x 17.4 cm
London: printed for A. Bell, 1773
The image depicts the frontispiece and title page.
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Phillis Wheatley, the author of this first book of poetry by a black American, was born in West Africa.  The book contains thirty-nine poems.  The frontispiece of this first, London edition of the book, is comprised of an engraving of Wheatley done by Scipio Moorhead, the slave of Rev. John Moorhead.


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