…Wheatley’s writing were issued posthumously: Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1834)—in which Margaretta Matilda Odell, who claimed to be a collateral descendant of Susanna Wheatley, provides a short biography of Phillis Wheatley as a preface to a collection of Wheatley’s poems—and Letters of Phillis Wheatley: The Negro-Slave Poet of…
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