Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
Publication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780820333380 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0820333387 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 811/.1 B 22
- PS866.W5 Z5827 2011
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| PS805 .Z5 L4 Cotton Mather / | PS852 .P7 1962 Satiric poems : The progress of dulness and M'Fingal ; | PS866 .W5 1988 The collected works of Phillis Wheatley / | PS866 .W5 Z5827 2011 Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / | PS866 .W5 Z595 2003 The trials of Phillis Wheatley / | PS866 .W5 Z697 2008 Phillis Wheatley's poetics of liberation : backgrounds and contexts / | PS1004 .A4 D4 1982 Democracy : an American novel / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
"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".
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.