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6:00 pm

Remembering PHILLIS WHEATLEY

May 8, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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. […]

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