Kovie Biakolo

Kovie Biakolo is a writer, journalist, editor, and multiculturalism scholar specializing in culture and identity.

A first edition of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), written while the poet was enslaved to John Wheatley of Boston. The book has a brown leather cover, the original Morocco spine label and a frontispiece featuring a portrait of Phillis by Scipio Morehead.  

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