In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley
published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about
African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen
years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning
writer Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of
Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with
her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and
her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are
poems about Wheatley's "age"-the era that encompassed political,
philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic
slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship
to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and
here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a
human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on
history.
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