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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1050437041 Title: Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage Author: Vincent Carretta Publisher: Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, 2014. ©2011 ISBN/ISSN: 9780820347042 0820347043 OCLC:1050437041

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Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage

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Phillis Wheatley : biography of a genius in bondage

Author:	Vincent Carretta
Publisher:	Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, 2014. ©2011
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : English : Paperback editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any Read more...
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Subjects	Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784. African American women poets -- Biography. Poets, American -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley. Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, 2014 (OCoLC)892063097
Named Person:	Phillis Wheatley; Phillis Wheatley
Material Type:	Document
Document Type:	Book, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Vincent Carretta Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780820347042 0820347043
OCLC Number:	1050437041
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Details:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:	"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" -- "The uncertain duration of all things temporal."
Responsibility:	Vincent Carretta.

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"This is a satisfying study of the `elusive' Wheatley, fleshed out with succinct, discerning readings of the body of her work. . . . Especially noteworthy is the book's attentiveness to Wheatley's Read more...

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