Phillis Wheatley was the very first African American woman to have a book published.
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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.
ISBN 978-0-7660-7326-5 (library binding) ISBN 978-0-7660-7324-1 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-7660-7325-8 (6-pack) 1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784—Juvenile literature. 2. Poets, American—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—Biography—Juvenile literature.
Contents : Phillis's early years — Phillis writes poetry – Phillis is published – The end of Phillis's life Timeline Glossary ISBN 0-8239-4119-1 ( lib . bdg . ) ISBN 0-8239-4191-4 ( pbk . ) 6 - pack ISBN 0-8239-4318-6 1. Wheatley ...
Phillis Wheatley
A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.
A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.
"This book about Phillis Wheatley began as a 5th grade project at [the author's] school, where she wrote a report about Wheatley.
This edition includes the attestation, the 'letter from her master' and notes from the original publishers as an appendix, so that the twenty-first-century reader can discover Phillis Wheatley as she should have been read - as a poet, not ...