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click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.
The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.