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The writer of the prize-wining and best-selling historical book A Melody of Africa, Ronald Wheatley turns his attention to the tumultuous days and nights on the eve of the North american Trend in a courtroom drama that brings to life Boston slave poet Phillis Wheatley on trial before eighteen of the very most eminent men of the Town. Her "offense", the God-given gift idea permitting her to create poetry with the capacity of touching the soul - words so brilliantly built that her work would be in comparison to England's Poet Laureate, Alexander Pope. Surely no mere slave may have written the finest poetry stated in the colonies. The results will determine not only Phillis' fate, but also a span of a young region. Within the eve of the North american Revolution in the fall of 1772, 18-year-old Phillis Wheatley, family members slave of John and Susanna Wheatley, was invited to seem before 18 of Boston's most prominent men in the Governor's Council Chamber in Boston to defend the premise that she was the writer of a collection of poems. The so-called "jury" was comprised of the most prominent men in Boston. This is not really a jury of her peers but rather one comprised of all white, all male, and generally middle-aged men. There is no transcript of that proceeding. The Trial of Phillis Wheatley is a courtroom docudrama "depicting" what occurred in that room that day. The ultimate verdict would change the span of American history. The Trial of Phillis Wheatley has been known as Best Book released (indie list) in 2015.
