Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage /
Carretta, Vincent.
Athens, Ga. ; London : University of Georgia Press,
c2011.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
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.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
African American women poets
Poets, American
Slaves