Phillis Wheatley Peters : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.

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.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

2023 edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : 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.

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"

"The uncertain duration of all things Temporal".

Notes:

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8203-6331-6

0-8203-6330-8

OCLC:

1531320935