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Phillis Wheatley Peters : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.

Author/creator Carretta, Vincent author.
Format Book and Print
Edition[2023 edition].
Publication Info Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]
Descriptionxvi, 287 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
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" -- "The uncertain duration of all things temporal".
Abstract "This new edition incorporates significant discoveries that Carretta and others have made since the book's initial publication about Wheatley's education, affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband, maternity, later years, and the posthumous survival of the manuscript of her proposed second volume of writings. Moreover, this new edition gives Carretta the opportunity to reconsider some previously available evidence"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.
General noteEdition statement from "Preface to the 2023 Edition", page ix.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [211]-270) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley Peters. 2023 edition. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] 9780820363318
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2022029650
ISBN9780820363325 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
ISBN0820363324 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
ISBN(epub)
ISBN(pdf)
Standard identifier# 40031818747

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