Phillis Wheatley

Vincent Carretta

earliest edition we have, 2003 University of Georgia Press, 2011 hardcover 279 pages

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman -- of any race or background -- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers...

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Phillis Wheatley Peters edition · 2023 · University of Georgia Press · 9780820363301
Phillis Wheatley Peters edition · 2023 · University of Georgia Press · 9780820363318
Phillis Wheatley Peters edition · 2023 · University of Georgia Press · 9780820363325
Phillis Wheatley edition · 2014 · University of Georgia Press · 9780820347042
Phillis Wheatley edition · 2014 · University of Georgia Press · 304 pages · 9780820346649
Phillis Wheatley hardcover · 2011 · University of Georgia Press · 279 pages · 9780820333380
Phillis Wheatley edition · 2011 · University of Georgia Press · 9781306426015
Phillis Wheatley edition · 2003 · Tandem Library · 9780613643115

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