01775cam a22003253u 4500 409 UtSlPG 20260610133031.0 m cr n 260607r1996||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 Poems on various subjects, religious and moral Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1996 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_on_Various_Subjects,_Religious_and_Moral Release date is 1996-01-01 Etext produced by Judith Boss HTML file produced by David Widger "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" by Phillis Wheatley is a collection of 39 poems published in 1773. This groundbreaking work made Wheatley the first published African-American woman poet in America. Unable to find a publisher in the American colonies due to widespread beliefs about racial inferiority, Wheatley turned to London. Before publication, she faced an extraordinary examination by eighteen prominent Boston figures, including John Hancock, who attested that an enslaved woman could indeed write poetry. Her collection arrived in Boston aboard the Dartmouth, miraculously surviving the Tea Party protests. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified American poetry -- African American authors American poetry https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/409 42537 42537