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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Henry Louis Gates
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| #151526 in Books | Henry Louis Gates Jr | 2010-01-12 | 2010-01-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.38 x5.00l,.20 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | The Trials of Phillis Wheatley America s First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Phillis Wheatley|By Eddie Hutchinson|You will make quick work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr's essay expanded to book form; the hardback is less than 100 pages. However, don't be mislead by its brevity. It is overflowing with information on Phillis Wheatley, the tribunal gathered to validate her authorship of published poems, an assessment of the attitude of the time (late 18th cen|From Booklist|Gates brings scholarly insight and a love of black literature to this examination of how Wheatley, the first published African American poet, has survived the judgment of past and contemporary critic
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer—a repudiation that eventually inspired gener...
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