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This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition…
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Vincent Carretta
This work examines the political satiric poetry and political graphic prints of Britain and Colonial America during the late Georgian period–a tumultuous era that witnessed the American and French revolutions…
This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition in…
The first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in…
This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy…
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In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard for…
Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings.
Phillis Wheatley
A collection of writings by the 18th-century American slave and author, which includes her letters, poetry, translations, short fiction, and essays, along with poetry by some of Wheatley’s contemporary African-American…
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789) is one of the most frequently and heatedly discussed texts in the…
An edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition…
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Born in Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770. Exploiting his dual identity as an African…
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Davarian Baldwin,Richard Benson II
A transformative collection that advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and…
This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
