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  1. Phillis Wheatley
    Biography of a Genius in Bondage
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

    With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman-of any race or background- to do so in America. Written... more

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    With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman-of any race or background- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley , Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status. A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literatur

     

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  2. Phillis Wheatley
    Biography of a Genius in Bondage
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0820347043; 9780820347042
    Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication
    Subjects: African American women poets / Biography; Poets, American / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 / Biography; Slaves / United States / Biography; Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; African American women poets; Poets, American / Colonial period; Slaves; African American women poets; Poets, American; Slaves
    Other subjects: Wheatley, Phillis / 1753-1784; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
    Scope: 1 online resource (318 pages)
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    Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; One: "On Being Brought from Africa to America"; Two: "Thoughts on the Works of Providence"; Three: "I prefer the Verse"; Four: "A wonder of the Age indeed!"; Five: "A Farewell to America"; Six: "Now upon my own Footing"; Seven: "The uncertain duration of all things Temporal"; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

    With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman-of any race or background- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status. A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literatur