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  1. Phillis Wheatley Peters
    biography of a genius in bondage
    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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    "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. Phillis Wheatley
    Biography of a Genius in Bondage
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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    Content information
    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