Overview :No one could have imagined that the frail, enslaved, seven-year-old girl who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1761 would become the firs... Read More
Overview :Phillis Wheatley was the first black person in America to have a book published, opening the door for other black writers and female authors... Read More
Overview :The poetry of America's first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking... Read More
Overview :Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Whe... Read More
Overview :Winner for Drama on eLit Book Awards 2015. The December 15, 2015 edition of Kirkus Review names "The Trial of Phillis Wheatley" in the list ... Read More
Overview :The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics... Read More
Overview :The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison h... Read More
Overview :Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association This edition includes all of the k... Read More
Overview :With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of Africa... Read More
Overview :Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We ... Read More
Overview :Features Phillis Wheatley's rise from slavery to recognition as the foremost African American poet in the American colonies. Focusing on Phi... Read More
Overview :Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first black Am... Read More
Overview :Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black Am... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking scholarly study of one of America_s most important and most controversial write... Read More
Overview :Kidnapped from West Africa and sold as a slave in Boston in 1761, the young girl who became Phillis Wheatley grew up to become an icon durin... Read More