Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

by Vincent Carretta

Book Overview

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background-- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00KILNO72
• ISBN13: 9780820346649
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"