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    Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems. Her works continues to be studied by historians, and her legacy has inspired generations of writers. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by enslavers and brought to America in 1761.
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    Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and played an important role in the development of Colonial Georgia. ... Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems. ... Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling ...
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South and dispelled the myth that lynching, which she famously referred to as ...
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    Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution—a time when women were encouraged and expected to keep silent on political matters. Warren not only engaged with the leading figures of the day—such as John, Abigail, and Samuel Adams—but she became an outspoken commentator and historian, as well as the leading female ...
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    As a poet, author, and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
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    Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Hurston's novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined Black folklore. Hurston influenced many writers, forever cementing her place in history as one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century.
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    Phillis Wheatley. African American women were central to early nineteenth century abolitionism. During the 1820s and 1830s, these women established social and literary organizations, as well as religious groups to challenge slavery and support their communities.
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    A prominent essayist of the American republic, Judith Sargent Murray was an early advocate of women's equality, access to education, and the right to control their earnings. Her essay, "On the Equality of the Sexes," was published a year before Mary Wolstonecraft's renowned 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women.
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    A symbolic figure in the American Revolutionary War, the story of a fearless woman named "Molly Pitcher" has been told many times. ... When she was in her early twenties, she married a barber named William Hays. Hays decided to enlist in the 4th Pennsylvania Artillery and served in the Continental Army when the American Revolutionary War ...

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