Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Episode 47: To Persevere In Grace & Faith


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Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner, October 30th, 1773 in which Wheatley discusses faith, her book, and a trip to England. This episode features Dr. Tara Bynum an Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at the University of Iowa. The letters between Wheatley and Tanner is the largest collection of 18th-century letters between two Black women and shows many aspects of their relationship. 

Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner, October 30th, 1773, Massachusetts Historical Society, Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts, https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=774 

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