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Really enjoyed this #BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek episode of “The West - a new history of an old idea”
by Naoise MacSweeney. It was about #Njinga, Queen of Ndongo in #Angola who defied Portuguese imperialists; and about #PhyllisWheatley an #AfricanAmerican enslaved as a 7yo in West Africa, who at 18yo published a book of #poetry that challenged all ideas of Western (white) superiority and claims to a classical heritage.#Slavery #West #USHistory #BlackHistory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001m5pn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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On the discovery of a new Phillis Wheatley (Peters) poem by scholar Wendy Roberts. It's an intriguing story illustrating how manuscript poems often circulated via small coteries in the 18th century...
#18thcentury #PhyllisWheatley #AfricanAmerican #poetry #LitStudies