The Age of Phillis Jeffers Honore Fanonne
The Age of Phillis Jeffers Honore Fanonne Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis WheatleyIn 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that…
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The Age of Phillis Jeffers Honore Fanonne
Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis WheatleyIn 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"--the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honor e Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters.
For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or