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100 1 _aCarretta, Vincent.
245 1 0 _aPhillis Wheatley :
_bbiography of a genius in bondage /
_cVincent Carretta.
260 _aAthens, Ga. :
_bUniversity of Georgia Press,
_cc2011.
300 _axiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
505 0 _a"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".
520 _aReveals 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.
600 1 0 _aWheatley, Phillis,
_d1753-1784.
650 0 _aAfrican American women poets
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPoets, American
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775
_vBiography.
650 0 _aSlaves
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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