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INDEX

Abolitionism

and slave literature

and the Fourth of July

as affected by the Wheatley case

David Walker and

Thomas Jefferson and

William Hamilton and

African Americans

capacity to produce literature

literary achievement

literary tradition

musical skill of

Thomas Jefferson's criticism of

Thomas Jefferson's servants

white views on

American Indians

American Revolution

Appeal in Four Articles
(Walker)

Authorship, questioning of Wheatley's

Baraka, Amiri

Barbé-Marbois, François, Marquis de

Bell, Archibald

Black Arts Movement

Blyden, Edward Wilmot

Boston Massacre (1770)

Boston Town Hall

Bowdoin, James

Brattle Street Church

Brown, William Wells

Byles, Mather

Carretta, Vincent

Chauncy, Charles

Clergy

Clotel, or, The President's Daughter
(Brown)

The Condition
(Delany)

Constitution, U.S.

Cooper, Anna Julia

Cooper, Samuel

Criticism

of African-American writing

of Wheatley as ‘race traitor'

of Wheatley's poetry

Dartmouth, William, Earl of

Dartmouth College

Declaration of Independence

DNA testing

Douglass, Frederick

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Ebony
magazine

Entertainment for a Winter's Evening
(Green)

Finch, Timothy

Forten, Charlotte

Fourth of July

Franklin, Benjamin

Freedom

Wheatley on

Wheatley's

Gayle, Addison Jr.

Green, Joseph

Grigo, Walter

Gross, Seymour

Gwinn, Peter

Hamilton, William

Hammon, Jupiter

Hancock, John

Hancock, Thomas

Harlem Renaissance

Harvard College

Hemings, Sally

Henderson, Stephen

Hollis Street

Congregational

Church

Hubbard, Thomas

Hume, David

Hutchinson, Anne

Hutchinson, Thomas

Jamison, Angelene

Jefferson, Thomas

as inspiration to slaves

as leader

impact on African-American literature

and Sally Hemings

views on African Americans

Johnson, James Weldon

Jones, John Paul

Kant, Immanuel

Kennedy, John F.

Lathrop, John

Legacy, Wheatley's literary

Literacy, Wheatley's

Loggins, Vernon

Mason, Julian

Mather, Samuel

The Militant Black Writer
(Henderson)

Mphalele, Ezekiel

Nickol, Robert

Nobel Prize

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson)

Oates, Joyce Carol

Occom, Samson

Old Colony House

Oliver, Andrew

“On Being Brought from Africa to America” (Wheatley)

“On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March,
1770” (Wheatley)

Peters, John

Phillis
(schooner)

Poems on Several Occasions
(Byles)

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
(Wheatley)

Poetry, Wheatley's

anagram of

Benjamin Franklin and

manuscripts

on famous figures

publication of

Thomas Jefferson and

Poets

Francis Williams

James Bowdoin

Joseph Green

Jupiter Hammon

Samuel Cooper

Publication

of Wheatley's first works

of Wheatley's later works

Purvis, Robert

Redmond, Charles Lenox

Reising, Russell

Religion

Robinson, William

Rush, Benjamin

Shields, John

Slaveholders

Slaves

literature by

Wheatley as

white slaves

Slave traders

Smith, Eleanor

Smith, James McCune

Smuggling

Soyinka, Wole

Stamp Act of 1765

Sugar Act of 1764

Thurman, Wallace

“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth” (Wheatley)

A Tribute for the Negro
(Armistead)

Vigilant Committee
A Voice from the South
(Cooper) Voltaire

Walker, David

Walker, Margaret

Warren, Joseph

Washington, George

The Way of the World
(Gayle)

Wheatley, John

Wheatley, Mary

Wheatley, Nathaniel

Wheatley, Phillis

and abolitionism

as slave

Benjamin Franklin and

criticism of

freedom of

literacy of

literary legacy of

poetry of

question of authorship

Thomas Jefferson and

Wheatley, Susanna

Whitefield, George

Williams, Francis

Woolbridge, Thomas

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Gates, Henry Louis.

The trials of Phillis Wheatley / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-786-72899-2

1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. 2. Poets, American--
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography. 3. Women
slaves--United States--Biography. 4. African American
poets--Biography. I. Title.

 

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