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Remembering PHILLIS WHEATLEY

May 8, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

Barbara Lewis, the Director of the William Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, presents “Remembering Phillis” in the Commonwealth Salon at the Boston Public Library’s Central Branch in Copley Square.

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born muse of 18th century Boston, arrived in Boston in 1761 in what is now Chinatown, near the corner of Beach and Tyler. A frail girl, not yet ten, she was purchased on board the slave ship, Phillis. Ten years later, she was an internationally famous poet. Barbara Lewis explores the world into which Phillis Wheatley stepped on the eve of the freedom era in the new country.

This event, cosponsored by the Boston Literary District, is free and open to the public. Register with eventbrite here.

Details

Date:
May 8, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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Phone:
617.536.5400
Website:
www.bpl.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.