The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Flight” is______________?

African-American Literature 26/11/2020

A. The poem is the first-known writing of an African American.
B. The poem is better than the poems of the more famous Phillis Wheatley.
C. The poem is the first of many poems by Terry.
D. The poetry focuses on slave life in the 18th century.

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