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  1. Phillis Wheatley Peters
    biography of a genius in bondage
    Author: Carretta, Vincent
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  <<The>> University of Georgia Press, Athens

    "This new edition incorporates significant discoveries that Carretta and others have made since the book's initial publication about Wheatley's education, affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband, maternity, later years, and the... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    "This new edition incorporates significant discoveries that Carretta and others have made since the book's initial publication about Wheatley's education, affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband, maternity, later years, and the posthumous survival of the manuscript of her proposed second volume of writings. Moreover, this new edition gives Carretta the opportunity to reconsider some previously available evidence"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780820363325
    RVK Categories: HS 5425
    Subjects: Wheatley, Phillis;
    Other subjects: Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Wheatley, Phillis / 1753-1784; African American women poets / Biography; Poets, American / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 / Biography; Slaves / United States / Biography; Biographies
    Scope: xvi, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Clotel & other writings
    Author: Brown, William Wells
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Library of America, New York, NY

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Greenspan, Ezra (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781598532913; 159853291X
    RVK Categories: HT 3901
    Edition: 1. print.
    Series: The library of America ; 247
    Subjects: Fugitive slaves / United States / Biography; Slaves / United States / Biography; Children of presidents / Fiction; Women slaves / Fiction; African American women / Fiction; Racially mixed people / Fiction; Illegitimate children / Fiction; Weibliche Schwarze. Amerika
    Other subjects: Brown, William Wells / 1814?-1884; Jefferson, Thomas / 1743-1826 / Relations with women / Fiction
    Scope: VIII, 1042 S., Ill.
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    Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave / written by himself -- Clotel, or, The President's daughter -- The American fugitive in Europe -- The escape, or, A leap for freedom -- The black man, his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements -- My Southern home -- Speeches and public letters -- Chronology
  3. Phillis Wheatley
    Biography of a Genius in Bondage
    Author: Carretta, Vincent
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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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