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2023 marked the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Phillis Wheatley's published book of poetry in the British American colonies.

Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who, as a teenager, became the first published African author of a book of poetry written in English.\xa0

Ade Solanke, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, has written two plays about Phillis Wheatley\u2019s life to commemorate the semiquincentennial of Wheatley\u2019s literary accomplishments. She joins us to not only explore the life of Phillis Wheatley, but also how playwrights use and research history to help them create dramatic works of art. Works of art that can help us forge an emotional connection with the past.

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