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This person claims that “lurking behind the docile lamb” is an “unconquered lioness” who asserts, “I am!” in a poem by Naomi Long Madgett. Poems about this person’s life are divided into books like “Enlightenment,” “Awakening,” and “Voyage” in a 2020 poetry collection by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers titled for the “Age” of this person. A poem addressed to this person intersperses Biblical verse numbers between instructions to “seek the living God” and “drink Samaria’s flood” after calling this writer a (*) “pious youth.” A poem by this author demands “the grace and glory of thy martial band” and extols “A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine.” This addressee of a poem by Jupiter Hammon credited “mercy” with bringing her from (10[1])the “Pagan​ land” (10[1])where she was enslaved. For 10 points, name this early Black female poet of “On Being Brought from Africa to America.” ■END■

ANSWER: Phillis Wheatley [or Phillis Wheatley Peters; prompt on Phillis or The Age of Phillis] (The first poem is “Phillis.”)
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Sam FooEugene o'NeggingHeat-Oppressed Brains12010
Omer KeskinYou, Me and the Big GA VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away12310

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