Break out the carnival hats

The new Carnivalesque, a feast of early modern history, is now up on The Long Eighteenth.

Do check it out, but just in case you don’t I can’t resist pointing specifically to one of its items, that on Mary Mark Ockerbloom’s Live Journal. It is about Phillis Wheatley, the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems.

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