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Phillis Wheatley House (Boston)

Massachusetts site honoring Phillis Wheatley, the first published Black female poet in the American colonies.

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Wheatley was kidnapped from Senegambia at age seven and published her 1773 poetry collection from Boston. The site at the Boston African American National Historic Site is a stop on the Black Heritage Trail.

Location

46 Joy St, Boston, MA, USA

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