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?? Cocoa-butter kisses ♪ ♪ Wipe my tears away... ♪ I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate...

Stamped from the Beginning • 2023

�� Cocoa-butter kisses ♪ ♪ Wipe my tears away... ♪ [Phillis Wheatley]
I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate Was snatch'd from Afric's
fancy'd happy seat ♪ ...when you've got nothing
To smile about ♪ [Wheatley] What pangs excruciating
must molest What sorrows labor in my parents' breast? ♪ Black woman ♪ ♪ Sometimes ♪ ♪ Sad woman ♪ [Jeffers] Phillis Wheatley
was the first Black woman to publish a book of poetry
in North America

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♪ Cocoa-butter kisses ♪

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♪ Wipe my tears away... ♪

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[Phillis Wheatley] I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate

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Was snatch'd from Afric's fancy'd happy seat

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♪ ...when you've got nothing To smile about ♪

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[Wheatley] What pangs excruciating must molest

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What sorrows labor in my parents' breast?

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♪ Black woman ♪

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♪ Sometimes ♪

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♪ Sad woman ♪

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[Jeffers] Phillis Wheatley was the first Black woman

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to publish a book of poetry in North America.

Duration

48 seconds

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Timestamp in Movie

00:25:28

Uploaded

Apr 12, 2025

Genres

documentary

Production

One Story Up Productions,story27

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Movie Summary

A hybrid documentary/scripted feature based on Dr. Kendi's National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas".