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<I>"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, From Eight to Fifteen Years of Age</I>

Caleb Bingham, American, 1757 - 1817 · 1809

Mediumink on paper with leather and wood

DepartmentNational Museum of African American History and Culture

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CollectionNational Museum of African American History and Culture

Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston, Massachusetts. She was named after the slave ship on which she was transported to the Americas and the name of her enslavers, but her surname of Peters is that of the man she married in 1778—John Peters, a free man of color.

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<I>"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, From Eight to Fifteen Years of Age</I>

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