The age of Phillis /

"A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave"--

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Main Author: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2020.
Series:Wesleyan poetry
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505 0 |a Cover -- The Age of PHILLIS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Mother/Muse -- An Issue of Mercy #1 -- BOOK: BEFORE -- The Smelting of Iron in West Africa -- mothering #1 -- Fathering #1 -- Dafa Rafet -- First-Time Prayer -- Before the Taking of Goonay -- Fracture -- Baay's Moan with Chorus -- Entreaty: Yaay -- An Issue of Mercy #2 -- Found Poem: Detention #1 -- BOOK: PASSAGE -- Blues: Odysseus -- point of no return -- The Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century 
505 8 |a Illustration: "Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788" -- According to the Testimony to the Grand Jury of Newport, Rhode Island, by Sailors Jonathan Cranston and Thomas Gorton, After Throwing a Negro Woman (Referred to as "Wench") Alive into the Sea, James DeWolf, Captain of the Slave Ship Polly, Mourned the Loss of the Good Chair to Which He Had Strapped His Victim -- Catalog: Water -- Found Poem: Detention #2 -- BOOK: AFTER -- Mothering #2 -- Fathering #2 -- Desk of Mary Wheatley, Where She Might Have Taught the Child (Re)named Phillis to Read 
505 8 |a Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston -- Phillis Wheatley Peruses Volumes of the Classics Belonging to Her Neighbor, the Reverend Mather Byles -- Lost Letter #2: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Samson Occom, London -- Lost Letter #3: Samson Occom, London, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston -- Susannah Wheatley Tends to Phillis in Her Asthmatic Suffering -- the mistress attempts to instruct her slave in the writing of a poem -- Lost Letter #4: Samson Occom, Mohegan, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston -- Lost Letter #5: Susannah Wheatley, Boston, to Samson Occom, Mohegan 
505 8 |a Lost Letter #6: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Mary Wheatley Lathrop, Boston -- The Age of Phillis -- BOOK: ENLIGHTENMENT -- The African-German Philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo Returns to His Home Region in West Africa to Become a Sage and (Possibly) a Goldsmith -- Illustration: Petrus Camper's Measurement of the Skull of a Negro Male -- the beautiful and the sublime -- Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Free Mulatto, and Her White Cousin, the Lady Elizabeth Murray, Great-Nieces of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 
505 8 |a Three Cases Decided by William Murray -- Found Poem: Racism -- BOOK: AWAKENING -- Still Life with God #1 -- Phillis Wheatley is Baptized at Old South Church -- Lost Letter #7: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Obour Tanner, Newport -- Lost Letter #8: Obour Tanner, Newport, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston -- Thomas Wooldridge Demands that Phillis Wheatley Instantly Compose a Poem in Honor of His Friend, William, the Right Honorable Earl of Dartmouth -- How Phillis Wheatley Might Have Obtained the Approval of Eighteen Prominent White Men of Boston to Publish Her Book of Poetry 
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