AP African American Studies Resource Archive

AP African American Studies Resource Library

An open book shows the title page of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley on the right. On the left, an engraving of the Black poet Phillis Wheatley in profile, sitting at a desk with a quill in hand.

The Life and Work of Phillis Wheatley

with Krystal Mackie, Jeanette Providence, and Sandra Trenholm

Discover the eighteenth-century poet who was enslaved, became free, and built a lasting legacy.

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A photograph of a Black woman with black curly hair and large hoop earrings, wearing a blue flowered blouse and a cerulean ascot posed in front of a window.

“What Is Slavery?”

with Brenda Stevenson

Explore how the globalization of trade propelled the business of slavery.

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