The finely framed lines of
Phillis Wheatley
will remain forever the anomaly of African-American literature in the
English
colonial period. Slave narratives, exemplified in the "Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass," were more the order. By the
early
1920's, more than 6,000 had been published. Topic 12 addresses
the
place of African-American letters in the early periods of American
literature.
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