"Phillis Wheatley, America's first published Black female poet, lived in Boston and summered in Newport.
Her first published poem, “On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin,” appeared in the Newport Mercury 1767.
In Newport, she befriended Obour Tanner, a bondswoman whose camaraderie manifested a remarkable and instructive correspondence (1772-1779) on the value of female friendship.
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