WebbAlthough she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, … WebbIntroduction: Political fictions -- Ticking, not talking: Timekeeping in early African American literature -- "Temporal damage": Pragmatism and Plessy in African American novels, 1896-1902 -- "The death of the last black man": Repetition, lynching, and capital punishment in twentieth-century African American literature -- "Seize the time!"
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WebbThe subversive pastoral created by Phillis Wheatley enacts a powerful and spectacular performance. The mystery here is that it took more than 210 years to recognize the … WebbWheatley's Turns of Praise 237 agree, -I humbly think it does not require the Penetration of a Philoso-pher to determine." 10 With powerful understatement, the Occom letter shows us that Phillis Wheatley was more than capable of biting irony. And such phrasing was not incompatible with her deep religious beliefs. date down picker
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WebbBefore Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) appeared in print in America, the abolitionist-theologian Samuel Hopkins expressed excitement over the fact that Wheatley’s volume could be used to both protest slavery and promote the humanity of Afri- WebbDOCUMENTS A PHILLIS WHEATLEY LETTER At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society in November 1863, Charles Deane, in presenting a paper on Phillis Wheatley, pointed out that although her poems were readily available,' "but few letters of this remarkable per- son are extant. '2 Of some interest therefore is a little- known, additional … bivalent shot alberta