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Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution / G.J. Barker-Benfield.
LIBRA PS866.W5 Z56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker-Benfield, G. J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
- Wheatley, Phillis.
- African American women poets--Biography.
- African American women poets.
- Poets, American--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Enslaved women--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved women.
- United States.
- Poets, American--Colonial period.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 Britain Sends an African Missionary to Africa p. 5
- 2 Prospects of an American Mission to Anomabu p. 23
- 3 From Africa to America p. 48
- 4 Wheatley Gains Huntingdon's Patronage p. 65
- 5 The Publication of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral p. 86
- 6 Married in Africa or Free in America p. 126
- 7 Freedom and Death p. 154.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479879250
- 1479879258
- OCLC:
- 1029062604
- Publisher Number:
- 40028446265
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