Title: Hang a thousand trees with ribbons
Subtitle: the story of Phillis Wheatley
Description: A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Subjects: Fiction, Poets, Juvenile fiction, Slaves, African Americans, Women poets, History, 1000blackgirlbooks, African americans, fiction, Massachusetts, history, fiction, Poets, fiction, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, Women, fiction, Enslaved persons, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
People: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775