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Complete Writings
Av Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the …
The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language AssociationThis edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition was …
The Writings of Phillis Wheatley
Inbunden, 2019
3021 kr
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This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition was published in 2001. Of the fifty-seven poems, as well as their authoritative variants, forty-six were published …
Genius in Bondage
Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
Av Vincent Carretta, Phillip Gould
Inbunden, 2001
762 kr
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Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, …
Unchained Voices
An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
E-bok, 2013
528 kr
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Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.
Unchained Voices
An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
E-bok, 2013
511 kr
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Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.
Genius in Bondage
Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
Av Philip Gould, Vincent Carretta
E-bok, 2014
615 kr
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Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, …
Unchained Voices
An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2003
574 kr
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In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard for the first time in two centuries.Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences …
Equiano, the African
Biography of a Self-Made Man
Häftad, 2022
373 kr
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This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, …
Phillis Wheatley Peters
Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Häftad, 2023
349 kr
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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 …
The Cambridge Introduction to Phillis Wheatley Peters
Häftad, 2026
395 kr
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In 1773 Phillis Wheatley Peters became the first person of African descent to publish a book, when she was barely twenty years old, and still enslaved. Her book made her the earliest international celebrity of African descent, just a dozen years after she had been brought from Africa to America. …
The Cambridge Introduction to Phillis Wheatley Peters
Inbunden, 2026
1320 kr
Kommande
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley Peters became the first person of African descent to publish a book, when she was barely twenty years old, and still enslaved. Her book made her the earliest international celebrity of African descent, just a dozen years after she had been brought from Africa to America. …
Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Revised Edition
Av Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta
E-bok, 2003
114 kr
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Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass''s autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano''s The Interesting …
Complete Writings
Av Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta
E-bok, 2001
234 kr
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The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis'' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an …
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Av Ignatius Sancho, Vincent Carretta
Häftad, 2015
448 kr
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A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters. ” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence published. He was also a critic of …
Phillis Wheatley
Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Inbunden, 2011
553 kr
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With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman—of any race or background— to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when …
Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary
Av Vincent Carretta, Ty M. Reese
Häftad, 2012
533 kr
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This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition in Africa.Born around 1740 at Cape Coast, in what is now Ghana, Quaque was brought to England by the …
