Cambridge introduction to phillis wheatley peters, the
Auteur :
Carretta, Vincent
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009575249
Date de publication :
30 nov. 2026
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Scholars, students, and general readers should find compelling the account of how Wheatley Peters, enslaved and barely twenty years old, became the first Black author to publish a book. She became the unofficial poet laureate of the American Revolution, only to die in poverty and relative obscurity in 1784.