xiv, 279 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2011
C2011
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Contents:
"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"
Summary:
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.
