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"Hymn to Humanity" Broadside (WLU Coll. 0488), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
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This collection contains one broadside published in a limited and numbered edition by Wisteria Press in February 1998. The broadside is of poet Phillis Wheatley's poem "Hymn to Humanity." This broadside is copy number 66.
From Biography.com: Phillis Wheatley was purchased and enslaved by John Wheatley of Massachusetts as a personal servant to his wife. They educated Phillis, and she began writing poetry. He published her first poem at age 12. Her first volume of poetry