Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but not poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination. Religion, indeed, has produced a Phillis Wheatley; but it could not produce a poet.
Jefferson, "Notes on State of Virginia"
A
Thomas Jefferson
no one really noes but they say in about 1753...
Phillis Wheatley's favorite color was purple.
yes he was affraid to say what he was going to say.
what does it say after honesty the first chapter of the book of wisdom by Thomas Jefferson
Oh, dude, Phillis Wheatley didn't have any children. She was a trailblazing poet and the first African American woman to publish a book in the United States. So, no mini-Wheatleys running around, just a whole lot of poetic talent.
No. Jonathan Mayhew did
It would allow farm ownership to continue.
Everyone in the Congress had some what of a say but it was written by Thomas Jefferson.
It was intended to be an expression of the american mind
yes