Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution /

There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolition...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barker-Benfield, G. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784.
1600-1775
African American women poets > Biography.
Poets, American > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography.
Enslaved women > United States > Biography.
Poétesses noires américaines > Biographies.
Poètes américains > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Biographies.
Femmes esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
African American women poets.
Poets, American.
Poets, American > Colonial period.
Enslaved women.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
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