Cover Image

The odyssey of Phillis Wheatley a poet's journeys through American slavery and independence

"Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a...

Full description

Main Author: Waldstreicher, David (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784.
African American women poets > Biography.
Poets, American > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography.
Slaves > United States > Biography.
African American poets > Biography.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The Beginnings, The Table, The Tale
  • The Ship, The Trade, The Wars
  • The Town, The Families, The Youth
  • The Teachers
  • The Preachers
  • The Monarch, The Poets, The Subjects, The Enslaved
  • The Nations
  • The Occupation
  • The Friends
  • The Women
  • The Proposal
  • The Movement
  • The Moment
  • The Campaign
  • The Metropolis
  • The Emancipation
  • The Patrons
  • The Book
  • The Readers
  • The Barbarians
  • The Americans
  • The Free
  • The Ends
  • The Afterlives.

Similar Items