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Early African American Literature: Phillis Wheatley Collection

This course explores African American authors and poets and examines the works of early African Amercian writers such as Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Lunsford Lane, Charles Chesnutt and many more.

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

The following is a collection of Phillis Wheatley books, from the Rare Book Collection that have been selected for your class. All of these books support the topic, Early African American Literature. 

Poems on various subjects, religious and morals

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1773

On recollection   

call no.  Rare PS 866 W5 O5 1773

Poems on comic, serious, and moral subjects    

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1787

Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 Z46 1834

Poems on various subjects

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1802

Poems on various subjects

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1801

Poems on various subjects

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1773

Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1838

The poems of Phillis Wheatley, as they were originally published in London, 1773 

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1909

Life and works of Phillis Wheatley: containing her complete poetical works 

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 1916

Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters); a critical attempt and a bibliography of her writings

call no. Rare PS 866 W5 Z6 1915