"On Recollection," in The Gentleman's Magazine

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An edition of Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1773, edited and published by David Henry in London. Page 456 features the poem "On Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley and includes a small review that partly reads: [This piece is taken from a small collection of Poems on Various Subjects, just published, written by Phillis Wheatley, a negro of Boston, who was brought from Africa in 1761, and is now only in the twenty-first year of her age. A testimony in favour of some of the poems, as the genuine productions of this young person, is signed by the Governor [...] and in this it is said, disgraceful as it may be to all that have signed it, that "this poor girl was brought an uncultivated barbarian from Africa, and has ever since been, and now is — A SLAVE!"]. Magazine pages are numbered 412 through 471. Magazine was previously bound.

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