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001 2011016374
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008 110429s2011 gauabf b s001 0beng
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050 00 $aPS866.W5$bZ5827 2011
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100 1 $aCarretta, Vincent.
245 10 $aPhillis Wheatley :$bbiography of a genius in bondage /$cVincent Carretta.
260 $aAthens, Ga. :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$cc2011.
300 $axiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
505 0 $a"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".
520 $aReveals 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.
600 10 $aWheatley, Phillis,$d1753-1784.
650 0 $aAfrican American women poets$vBiography.
650 0 $aPoets, American$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$vBiography.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$vBiography.