Phillis Wheatley wrote the following poem and enclosed it in a
prefatory letter to George
Washington, dated October 26, 1775. Washington sent the letter and poem
to Joseph Reed, who later arranged to have them published in the
Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum in April 1776.
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