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Why does Gates consider Jefferson the "midwife" of African American literature? Excerpt: If Phillis Wheatley was the Mother of African American literature, there's a sense in which Thomas Jefferson can
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Why does Gates consider Jefferson the "midwife" of African American literature?

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If Phillis Wheatley was the Mother of African American literature, there's a sense in which Thomas Jefferson can be thought of as its midwife.

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Gates feels that Jefferson i slacking a literature of their civil rights. Thats why Jefferson can be called "midwife"

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