Phillis Wheatley
Subtitle: biography of a genius in bondage
By: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780820333380
Subjects: African American women poets; Biography; Slaves; American Poets
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: "On being brought from Africa to America"; title: "Thoughts on the works of Providence"; title: "I prefer the verse"; title: "A wonder of the age indeed!"; title: "A farewell to America"; title: "Now upon my own footing"; title: "An elegy on leaving".