Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
A selection of poems by Phillis Wheatley, a former slave and the first African-American poet to publish a book, and includes lsetters and a memoir by Wheatley's descendant Margaretta Matilda Odell.
Discusses the place of colonial women in the home, the workplace, in Native American communities, and as slaves and servants, and examines their roles as activists and leaders in the church and the community.
