ISBN10: 191372414X, ISBN13: 9781913724146, [publisher: Renard Press Ltd Okt 2020] Softcover Neuware - These poems are from the first book of poetry published by an African-American author. Phillis was brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the Wheatley family, where she threw herself into education; soon she was writing verse of such a high calibre that she enchanted societal figures as lofty as George Washington. 128 pp. Deutsch
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Paperback / softback. New. These poems are from the first book of poetry published by an African-American author. Phillis was brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the Wheatley family, where she threw herself into education; soon she was writing verse of such a high calibre that she enchanted societal figures as lofty as George Washington. ISBN 191372414x 9781913724146 [GB]

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ISBN10: 191372414X, ISBN13: 9781913724146, [publisher: Renard Press Ltd] Softcover 2020. Paperback. . . . . .
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ISBN10: 1804470007, ISBN13: 9781804470008, [publisher: Renard Press Ltd] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley family. There, she threw herself into education, and soon she was devouring the classics and writing verse with whatever she had to hand - odes in chalk on the walls of the house. Once her talent became known, there was uproar, and in 1772 she was interrogated by a panel of 'the most respectable characters in Boston' and forced to defend the ownership of her own words, since many believed that it was an impossible that she, an African-American slave, could write poetry of such high quality. As related in the 1834 memoir by an outspoken proponent of antislavery, B.B. Thatcher, also included in this volume, the road to publication was not straight, and while it became clear that such a volume could not be published in America at the time, Phillis was recommended to a London publisher, who brought out the book - albeit with an attestation as to her authorship, as well as a 'letter from her master' and a short preface asking the reader's indulgence. This edition includes the attestation, the 'letter from her master' and notes from the original ...
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Paperback / softback. New. ISBN 1804470007 9781804470008 [GB]