Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta

304 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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. Writt...

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