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Phillis Wheatley Peters - Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Phillis Wheatley Peters - Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first
full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her
from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international
celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties, only to fall
into relative obscurity when she died in 1784 at barely the age of
thirty. Introduced to Benjamin Franklin in London, praised by her
correspondent George Washington, and criticized by Thomas
Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley (later Peters) laid claim to being the
virtual poet laureate during the American Revolution as well as in
the new United States. She overcame contemporaneous restraints of
age, gender, race, and social status to assert her position as the
unofficial spokesperson and critical observer of the nation that
claimed to be founded on the principle that all men are created
equal. Grounded in extensive primary research, Phillis Wheatley
Peters recovers her life and times and reclaims the recognition and
status she deserves as a heroic literary and political figure in an
age of heroes. She is indisputably the founder of African American
literature. Contemporary African American authors, including Nikki
Giovanni, Amanda Gorman, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, June Jordan, and
Alice Walker, celebrate Phillis Wheatley Peters's transcendent
literary achievement and influence. This new edition incorporates
significant discoveries that Vincent Carretta and others have made
since the book's initial publication about Wheatley's education,
affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband,
maternity, later years, and the posthumous survival of the
manuscript of her proposed second volume of writings. Moreover,
this new edition gives Carretta the opportunity to reconsider some
previously available evidence.
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