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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525310860
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book My Name Is Phillis Wheatley written by Afua Cooper and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back to health and teaches her to read and write. Soon her mistress recognizes that the girl is a quick learner and talented. At the age of 12, a torrent of poetry begins to flow out of Wheatley. Proud of her achievements, her mistress organizes readings in Boston's finest parlors and drawing rooms, and Wheatley's fame spreads. But even when many in Boston are calling her a prodigy and a genius, some remain unsure that a slave should be able to write, much less write poetry. When Phillis travels to London she is a media sensation, feted by the cream of English society. A book of her poems is published, and she finally gains her freedom. This amazing story, wide in scope, is based on fact and told convincingly from young Wheatley's point of view.

A Voice of Her Own

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781451778762
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book A Voice of Her Own written by Kathryn Lasky and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.

Complete Writings

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140424300
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Complete Writings written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115291
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547351496
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons written by Ann Rinaldi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral written by Phillis Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Phillis Wheatley

Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346640
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Phillis Wheatley written by Vincent Carretta and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Age of Phillis

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579513
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Phillis written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458715302
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Phillis Wheatley written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Freedom's Pen

Author : Wendy Lawton
Publisher : Daughters of the Faith
ISBN 13 : 9780802476395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Pen written by Wendy Lawton and published by Daughters of the Faith. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized biography of the girl who was brought to America from Gambia as a slave and who later gained fame as an African American poet of great renown, from her time in Africa until she gained her freedom.

Phillis Wheatley

Author : Kathryn Kilby Borland
Publisher : Young Patriots Series
ISBN 13 : 1882859472
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Phillis Wheatley written by Kathryn Kilby Borland and published by Young Patriots Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillis Wheatley's rise from slavery to recognition as the foremost African American poet in the American colonies is featured in this volume of the Young Patriots series. Focusing on Phillis's early years, this profile reveals her illiterate beginnings in the Wheatley family and the turbulent pre–Revolutionary War climate in which she became an avid student and young poet. Young readers will rejoice as she protects her friend Nat from British soldiers after the Boston Tea Party and delight when one of her poems results in a life-changing meeting with George Washington. Vivid illustrations accent this window into an exciting era in which Phillis found strength in the face of adversity and became a celebrated poet. Special features include a summary of Phillis's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known tidbits of information about her, and a time line of her life.

My Name Is Henry Bibb

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525310852
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book My Name Is Henry Bibb written by Afua Cooper and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper's novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and founder of a Black newspaper. Cooper takes painstakingly researched details about slavery and weaves an intimate story of Bibb's young life, which is overshadowed by inconceivable brutality. At nine years old, Henry is separated from his mother and brothers and hired out, suffering abuse at the hands of cruel masters so severe he almost dies. Henry's courageous life is described in intimate detail and young readers will learn about everyday slave life on a plantation and in towns and cities, the coded language of slave escapes and the dangerous routes over land and water to safe houses. As Henry Bibb moves from boyhood to manhood, he knows that one day he will “fly away” as in the old legend of the Africans who flew away to freedom. The first-person narrative, convincingly told in Henry's voice, traces Bibb's boyhood, marriage, fatherhood and the developing awareness of his bondage and his determination to break free of it or die.

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

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528791029
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Heav'nly Tidings from the Afric Muse

Author : Richard Kigel
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781557789280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Heav'nly Tidings from the Afric Muse written by Richard Kigel and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Biography of African-American poet Phillis Wheatley examines her historical, literary, and social influence in colonial America. Features and analyzes her poetry, expands on works from previous biographers, and introduces continuing historical research. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni---

A Voice of Her Own

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763602529
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Voice of Her Own written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.

The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780195060850
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.

Women Who Wrote

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785236279
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Women Who Wrote written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families. They were sometimes lonely. Many wrote anonymously or under a pseudonym for a world not yet ready for their genius and talent. We know many of their names—Austen and Alcott, Brontë and Browning, Wheatley and Woolf—though some may be less familiar. They are here, waiting to introduce themselves. They marched through the world one by one or in small sisterhoods, speaking to each other and to us over distances of place and time. Pushing back against the boundaries meant to keep us in our place, they carved enough space for themselves to write. They made space for us to follow. Here they are gathered together, an army of women who wrote and an arsenal of words to inspire us. They walk with us as we forge our own paths forward. These women wrote to change the world. The perfect keepsake gift for the reader in your life Anthology of stories and poems Book length: approximately 90,000 words