Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
Carretta, Vincent.
2011
PS866.W5 Z5827 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
Author Carretta, Vincent.
ISBN 9780820333380 (alk. paper)
0820333387 (alk. paper)
Imprint 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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".

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