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Old South Church to Celebrate Phillis Wheatley Sunday
Old South Church will again celebrate one its most notable past parishioners this May 8, with the return of Phillis Wheatley Sunday. A member of the church during the American Revolution, as well as the first published African American author, Wheatley was kidnapped from her African homeland at around the age of 7. She learned English and Latin on her own, as well as how to write from white children. Wheatley began writing poetry as a teen and went on to become a celebrated poet.