Photographs of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773; London; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead); volume was on display at the University of Dayton in the fall of 2014 as part of the exhibit Imprints and Impressions: Milestones in Human Progress – Highlights from the Rose Rare Book Collection.

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