Learn about the amazing work of Phillis Wheatley, the mother of black literature in America.

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Sources

Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Wheatley, Phillis. ‘To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother’, 1773.

Hoose, Phillip M. We Were There Too. Phillip House, 2001.

Michals, Deborah. 2015. http://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley. Visited 4/16/2025

Waldstreicher, David. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. Recorded Books, 2023.

Learn about one of American's most influential founding mothers, socialite and patriot, Elizabeth Willing Powel.

1. A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel: 1743-1830, David Walker Maxey, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2006), 17-19.

2. Elizabeth Willing Powel. Mount Vernon. Viewed February 3, 2025.http://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-willing-powel

3. "Elizabeth Willing Powel to Martha Hare, 25 April, 1814", Powel Family Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

4. Hass, Kimberly. Elizabeth Willing Powel: Philadelphia's Eighteenth Century Influencer. March 16, 2024.http://www. hiddencityphila.org/2024/03/elizabeth-willing-powel-philadelphias-18th-century-influencer/

Learn about the wife, mother, Quaker and Patriot Spy, Lydia Barrington Darragh.

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1. Footon, George. "The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service." 1917.

2. Hoose, Phillip. "We Were There Too." Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001. 3. www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/lydia-barrington-darragh American Battlefield Trust Lydia Barrington

4. www.britannica.com/event/Quartering-Act (2024) Quartering Act (2024)

5. www.revolutionary-war.net/lydia-darragh/ (Mar 2020) Lydia Darragh: Quaker, Pacifist and American Spy