‘To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works’ is a poem by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-84) about an artist, Scipio Moorhead, an enslaved African artist living in America. Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral […]
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