Harriet Jacobs

Apr 18, 2023 | audible.com | David Waldstreicher |Harriet Jacobs |Jonathan Eig |Rachel Swarns

Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age.