The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence [Audiobook] free ebook download.

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Author(s):	David Waldstreicher

Date:	2023	Format:	M4B@64 kbps	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	B0BPB2T6C7
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And (wond'rous instinct) Ethiopians speak." Others may never feel their tyrannic sway."
By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule  before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. Her life demonstrated that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery. Indeed, she helped make it so. In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the deepest account to date of Wheatley's life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of the revolutionary era. He demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, "Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition: "Can I then but pray

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