The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

by Henry Louis Gates

129 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780465018505
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Traces the roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in the shaping of African-American literary tradition, discussing Wheatley's rise to fame and Jefferson's disputed role as the father of the black freedom struggle.

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