Phillis Wheatley’s hand on the page, 229 years later

from The New York Times:
“Slave Poet’s 1776 Letter, ‘New Discovery,’ Is for Sale,” by Wendy Moonan
“Historic discoveries don’t happen every day at the auction houses, but Swann Galleries has a true find in its Nov. 22 autographs auction: a signed letter, dated Feb. 14, 1776, by Phillis Wheatley, a Boston slave and the author of the first book of poetry published by an African-American.”

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