"We whose names are under-written do assure the world that the poems specified were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young Negro girl, who was but a few years since brought an uncultivated barbarian from Africa."

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https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/examining-phillis-wheatley/