Phillis Wheatley Peters

by Vincent Carretta

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820363324
• ISBN13: 9780820363325
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"