A Black Tory Abolitionist in Early America: Phillis Wheatley's Republican Poetics.

The first African-American to publish a book, Phillis Wheatley has long been disparaged, by eighteenth-century slave owners and twentieth-century leftists alike, as 'a third rate imitation of Alexander Pope'. No one, however, seems to have taken very seriously what the obvious presence of Pope in Wh...

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Published in:	Postcolonial Studies Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 371 - 389
Main Author:	Jackson, Spencer
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2020
Subjects:	African Americans Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 Eighteenth century Slaveholders Twentieth century
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost