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Recent News: A previously unknown elegy by Phillis Wheatley has been discovered. Wendy Raphael Roberts, a professor at the University of Albany, has identified "On the Death of Love Rotch," dated 1767, as Wheatley s earliest full-length elegy.
Her work helped propel the antislavery movement and served as a model for abolitionists looking to prove that Black people were both intellectual and artistic.