TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carretta,Vincent
TI  - Phillis Wheatley: biography of a genius in bondage 
SN  - 9780820333380 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS866.W5 Z5827 2011
U1  - 811/.1B 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Athens, Ga.
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Wheatley, Phillis,
KW  - African American women poets
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Slaves
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index; "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"
N2  - 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
ER  -