Phillis Wheatley

Over the summer, I took an American Lit class at Wofford College with Dr. Neighbors. One of the authors we studied was Phillis Wheatley and the encryptions she embedded in her poems. Below I’ve included the essay I wrote for the class on three of her poems. Though Phillis Wheatley…

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