Phillis Wheatley Tea Towel Black British Books A collection of extraordinary 19th-century

A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of Black people in Victorian Britain

Fashion Cities Africa is a landmark book that should be celebrated in fashion houses the world over

early 1800's hand-drawn maps of the African continent

South Africa

Phillis Wheatley Tea Towel Black British Books A collection of extraordinary 19th-centuryPhillis Wheatley (1753 1784) was an American poet, and the first African American female poet to have her work published. She was born in Africa, but as a child was captured and sold into slavery in North America. She was bought by John Wheatley of Boston in 1761, whose family taught her to read and write. Phillis Wheatley's book, 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral' was published in London in 1773, the first book ever published by an