Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution, Hardcover - G. J. Barker-Benfield

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

Reducere. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley w...

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Reducere. The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...

Reducere. The poetry of America's first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking world....

Reducere. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in ...

Reducere. In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with Americ...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...

Reducere. Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

Reducere. This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

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With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

Reducere. The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was vital for trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American privat...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, ...

Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatle...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then keep reading...Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Reducere. "Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." BOOKLIST "We ll c...

Reducere. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.

Reducere. This book explores the foundations of our republic, bringing the reader "up close" to ten men from Pennsylvania and Delaware who each played a cruc...

Reducere. New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States....

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Reducere. IN ANCIENT INDIA, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes him through perilous lands and into a world at w...

Reducere. In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis tells the unexpected story of America's second great founding and of the men most res...

Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes a dramatic narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the Bri...