Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral and A Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

by Phillis Wheatley

In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley family. There, she threw herself into education, and soon she was devouring the classics and writing verse with whatever she had to hand - odes in chalk on the walls of the house. Once her talent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804470007
• ISBN13: 9781804470008
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"