A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects (1773): Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is surely a book that matters. It matters as the first book published by an American slave of African origin; it matters as an emblem of the complex political, moral, and philosophical debates at hand in the Ame...

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Published inSocial research Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 369 - 395
Main Author McBride, Dwight A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2022
Subjects
18th century
African Americans
History
Poetry
Politics
Racism
Reception (Artistic works)
Religion
Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
White supremacy
United Kingdom > UK
England
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Summary:Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is surely a book that matters. It matters as the first book published by an American slave of African origin; it matters as an emblem of the complex political, moral, and philosophical debates at hand in the American colonies on the eve of revolution; it matters as an aesthetic achievement; and it matters, perhaps most of all, as evidence of the persistence of antiblack racism and the discourse of white supremacy that have indelibly impacted the reception of this book from its eighteenth-century release to the present day.
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ISSN:0037-783X
1944-768X
1944-768X
DOI:10.1353/sor.2022.0026