aug 1, 1772 - chapter 5, year 1772

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Phillis Wheatley's adoptive father, John Wheatley got eighteen of the smartest men in America together in Boston, so they can test if she is smart enough, but even if she has passed the test, no one will publish her work. But Phillis proved the point that black people were not dumb, they were made dumb by slavery.

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