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With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. After studying english and classical literature, geography, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, and Latin, the Bible, winning much public attention and considerable fame.

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The extraordinary writings of phillis wheatley, a slave girl turned published poetIn 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley.

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

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Gandhi: Selected Political Writings Hackett Classics

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The Haitian Revolution Revolutions

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Julius Caesar The Pelican Shakespeare

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Hackett Classics

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The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 Dover Thrift Editions

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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life. Michael dirda, washington postpompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Penguin Books. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders.

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Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America Penguin Classics

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On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary

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