Carretta, Vincent. <br/><br/>
Phillis Wheatley :  biography of a genius in bondage / 
Vincent Carretta. 
 - Athens, Ga. :  University of Georgia Press,  c2011. 
 - xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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". 
<br/><br/> Reveals 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780820333380 (cloth : alk. paper) 0820333387 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011016374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American women poets--Biography.<br/>Poets, American--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.<br/>Slaves--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS866.W5  / Z5827 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811/.1  B