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April 28, 2005: 76ers Basketball Player Collects Rare Books
"Mounted in a glass case in a first-floor gallery is what Webber says is his most cherished item: a first edition of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the Boston slave from Senegal who became the first African American to be published, in 1773."
"There's also an 1800 passport for the schooner Assistance for Toussaint L'Ouverture, the former slave and Haitian revolutionary general."
