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Podcast: Real Black Consciousness Forum
Episode: Phillis Wheatley Story Is A HOAX To Make The American Negroe Believe The Slave Ship Story Is Real!
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As the Wheatley story goes she was born in West Africa. Phillis was kidnapped by slave traders and brought to New England in 1761. From a young age it was clear that Phillis was an extraordinary person. She mastered English, Latin, Greek and English literature at a time when enslaved people could be condemned to death for learning. As she entered her teen years, she became a writer. Back in the early 1770s, as she sat in this church, in thes...