Phillis Wheatley [electronic resource] : biography of a genius in bondage / Vincent Carretta.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carretta, Vincent
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Subjects:	Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784. African American women poets > Biography. Poets, American > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
Genre:	Biography.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Format:	Electronic eBook

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".