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rebecca191 recommends Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of Freed Slave and Author Phillis Wheatley (Daughters of the Faith Series) by Wendy Lawton

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Very sad book it had me crying throught and thought (

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 015205393X, Paperback)

Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, Phillis Wheatley--as she comes to be known--stuns her adopted country by becoming America's first published black poet.

Includes a reader's guide.

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