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Author Carretta, Vincent.
Title Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.
Publication Info Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2011.


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Descript xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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".
Note 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.
ISBN 9780820333380 (cloth)
0820333387 (cloth)
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Author Carretta, Vincent.
Subject Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
African American women poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Descript xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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".
Note 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.
ISBN 9780820333380 (cloth)
0820333387 (cloth)
Author Carretta, Vincent.
Subject Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
African American women poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  PS 866 W5 Z62  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
African American women poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Descript xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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".
Note 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.
ISBN 9780820333380 (cloth)
0820333387 (cloth)
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