02410nam 2200637 450 991078902870332120230329155720.00-8203-4704-3(CKB)3710000000087915(EBL)1630844(SSID)ssj0001112908(PQKBManifestationID)11615191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112908(PQKBWorkID)11162919(PQKB)11239212(OCoLC)870949220(MdBmJHUP)muse34827(Au-PeEL)EBL1630844(CaPaEBR)ebr10837666(CaONFJC)MIL573852(MiAaPQ)EBC1630844(EXLCZ)99371000000008791520140222h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhillis Wheatley biography of a genius in bondage /Vincent Carretta ; April Leidig-Higgins, designAthens, Georgia :The University of Georgia Press,2011.©20111 online resourceSarah Mills Hodge Fund PublicationDescription based upon print version of record.0-8203-4664-0 0-8203-3338-7 Includes bibliographical references and index."On being brought from Africa to America" -- "Thoughts on the works of Providence" -- "I prefer the verse" -- "A wonder of the age indeed!" -- "A farewell to America" -- "Now upon my own footing" -- "An elegy on leaving".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.Sarah Mills Hodge Fund PublicationAfrican American women poetsBiographyPoets, AmericanColonial period, ca. 1600-1775BiographyEnslaved personsUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American women poetsPoets, AmericanEnslaved persons811/.1Carretta Vincent532269Leidig-Higgins April1533953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789028703321Phillis Wheatley3781103UNINA