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Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta ; April Leidig-Higgins, design.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carretta, Vincent.
- Series:
- Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women poets--Biography.
- African American women poets.
- Poets, American--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
- Wheatley, Phillis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2011.
- 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.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780820347042
- 0820347043
- OCLC:
- 870949220
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