The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781458715302

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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

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 generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition. Writing with all the lyricism and critical skill that place him at the forefront of American letters, Gates brings to life the characters, debates, and controversy that surrounded Wheatley in her day and ours.

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786728992

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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Henry Louis Gates Jr Pdf

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 generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition. Writing with all the lyricism and critical skill that place him at the forefront of American letters, Gates brings to life the characters, debates, and controversy that surrounded Wheatley in her day and ours.

Author : Ronald B. Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615645313

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The Trial of Phillis Wheatley by Ronald B. Wheatley Pdf

Winner for Drama on eLit Book Awards 2015. On the eve of the American Revolution in the fall of 1772, eighteen year old Phillis Wheatley, the household slave of John and Susanna Wheatley was invited to appear before eighteen of Boston's most prominent men in the Governor's Council Chamber in Boston to defend the premise that she was the author of a collection of poems. The so-called "jury" was comprised of the most prominent men in Boston. This was not a jury of her peers but rather one comprised of all white, all male, and largely middle-aged men. There is no transcript of that proceeding. The Trial of Phillis Wheatley is a courtroom docudrama "depicting" what occurred in that room that day.The final verdict would change the course of American history.Kirkus Review says of the docudrama "The Trial of Phillis Wheatley," that it is "Classic American history theater for readers who are weary of The Crucible and Inherit the Wind."

Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820346649

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Phillis Wheatley by Vincent Carretta Pdf

Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who 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.

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819579515

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The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Pdf

“An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine). In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's “age”—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley’s relationship to black people and their individual “mercies” is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.

Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547351490

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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi Pdf

Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatley—as she comes to be known—has an eager mind and it leads her on an unusual path for a slave—she becomes America’s first published black poet. “Strong characterization and perceptive realism mark this thoughtful portrayal.”—Booklist

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486115290

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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528791021

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Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

Author : Vincent Carretta,Philip Gould
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183206

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Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta,Philip Gould Pdf

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, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment on definitions of freedom and liberty, and identify ways in which black literature both engaged with and rebelled against Anglo-American culture.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014042430X

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Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

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 education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Quan Barry
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822979319

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Asylum by Quan Barry Pdf

Winner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize 2002 finalist in poetry, Society of Midland Authors Quan Barry’s stunning debut collection has been compared to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel for the startling complexity of craft and the original sophisticated vision behind it. In these poems beauty is just as likely to be discovered on a radioactive atoll as in the existential questions raised by The Matrix. Asylum is a work concerned with giving voice to the displaced—both real and fictional. In "some refrains Sam would have played had he been asked" the piano player from Casablanca is fleshed out in ways the film didn’t allow. Steven Seagal, Yukio Mishima, Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials, and eighteenth-century black poet Phillis Wheatley also populate these poems. Barry engages with the world—the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, the legacy of the Vietnam war—but also tackles the broad meditative question of the individual’s existence in relation to a higher truth, whether examining rituals or questioning, "Where is it written that we should want to be saved?" Ultimately, Asylum finds a haven by not looking away.

Author : Rebecca Sodergren,Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781935796985

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America's First Black Poet by Rebecca Sodergren,Phillis Wheatley Pdf

This reader provides an introduction to the life and poetry of Phillis Wheatley, America's first African-American poet. Although taken from Africa as a young girl and brought to colonial Boston to be a slave, she became a well-educated, Christian poet who was recognized for her work in both America and England. This biographical sketch is designed to be an introductory overview of Ms. Wheatley's life and work. It contains a brief description of her life and nine of her poems. It can be used as a reader for students, with its vocabulary words and comprehension questions, or as the foundation to a deeper study on this famous American.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195060857

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The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101071961807

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

Author : Robert Edgerton
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786740093

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Africa's Armies by Robert Edgerton Pdf

Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity of their societies. During the colonial era, African soldiers fought with death-defying courage, earning such respect as warriors that they were often recruited into the colonial armies not simply to enforce colonial rule in Africa, but to fight for the European homelands as well. After independence swept through Africa, African military men seized political power in country after country, ruling dictatorially for their own benefit and for that of their kinsmen and cronies. The author describes the post-colonial civil wars that have devastated much of sub-Saharan Africa -- catastrophes marked by genocide, famine, disease, economic collapse, and steadily declining life expectancy. He closes by describing the role that Africa's military forces can and must play if the future is to bring better times to the continent's many peoples.