TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carretta,Vincent
TI  - Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
T2  - Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
SN  - 9780820347042
AV  - PS866 .P455 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - African American women poets
KW  - Biography
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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