Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave. :
Dedicated to the friends of the Africans. : [Four lines of verse].

Description

Main Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.

Related Names

Light, George W. (George Washington), 1809-1868, publisher.
Odell, Margaretta Matilda.
Pendleton's Lithography

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston : Published by Geo. W. Light, Lyceum Depository, 3 Cornhill, 1834.

Subjects

Wheatley, Phillis, > Wheatley, Phillis, / 1753-1784 > Wheatley, Phillis, / 1753-1784 / Portraits.
Wheatley, Phillis, > Wheatley, Phillis, / 1753-1784.
Enslaved persons > Enslaved persons / United States > Enslaved persons / United States / Biography.
Enslaved women > Enslaved women / United States > Enslaved women / United States / Biography.
African American poets > African American poets / Biography.
African American women poets > African American women poets / Biography.
African American women > African American women / Poetry.
American poetry > American poetry / African American authors.
Bookplates.
Paper binding labels (Binding)
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
Lithographs.
Biographies.
Poems.

Note

Last page blank.
"Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley. First published in London, from the original manuscript, by Arch. Bell, Aldgate. 1773": pages [31]-103.
"Memoir" (pages [9]-29) by Margaretta Maltilda Odell.
Frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley signed: Pendleton's Lithogy. Boston.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, By Geo. W. Light, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."--Verso of title page.

Physical Description

viii, [1], 10-103, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 19 cm

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