According to data gathered by Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier, the most selective schools are more likely to choose blacks who have at least one immigrant parent from Africa or the Caribbean than black students who are descendants of American slaves.
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Phillis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.
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Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic
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She was the first educated slave of John Whitley's.
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She was the first African-American slave to publish a book
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Early slaves were generally denied education, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin and the Bible.
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In very literary styles, the newly resurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture,recreating among other things the early days of slavery and the importance of religion to the slaves
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Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.