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Phillis Wheatley Peters : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
Van Pelt Library PS866.W5 Z5827 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carretta, Vincent, 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 persons--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Poets, American--Colonial period.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 287 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [2023 edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This new edition incorporates significant discoveries that Carretta and others have made since the book's initial publication about Wheatley's education, affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband, maternity, later years, and the posthumous survival of the manuscript of her proposed second volume of writings. Moreover, this new edition gives Carretta the opportunity to reconsider some previously available evidence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication" -- Title page verso.
- Edition statement from "Preface to the 2023 Edition", page ix.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley Peters
- ISBN:
- 9780820363325
- 0820363324
- OCLC:
- 1333689476
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