Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
2011
PS866.W5 Z5827 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
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ISBN
9780820333380 (alk. paper)
0820333387 (alk. paper)
0820333387 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS866.W5 Z5827 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.1 B
Summary
Reveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
"On being brought from Africa to America"
"Thoughts on the works of Providence"
"I prefer the verse"
"A wonder of the age indeed!"
"A farewell to America"
"Now upon my own footing"
"An elegy on leaving".
"Thoughts on the works of Providence"
"I prefer the verse"
"A wonder of the age indeed!"
"A farewell to America"
"Now upon my own footing"
"An elegy on leaving".