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Product Identifiers
PublisherKids CAN Press, The Limited
ISBN-101525310860
ISBN-139781525310867
eBay Product ID (ePID)19057276838
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Name Is Phillis Wheatley : a Story of Slavery and Freedom
Number of Pages152 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicBiographical / United States, People & Places / United States / African American, Historical / United States / 19th Century
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorAfua Cooper
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight6.7 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromFifth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToNinth Grade
SynopsisThis is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back to health and teaches her to read and write. Soon her mistress recognizes that the girl is a quick learner and talented. At the age of 12, a torrent of poetry begins to flow out of Wheatley. Proud of her achievements, her mistress organizes readings in Boston's finest parlors and drawing rooms, and Wheatley's fame spreads. But even when many in Boston are calling her a prodigy and a genius, some remain unsure that a slave should be able to write, much less write poetry. When Phillis travels to London she is a media sensation, feted by the cream of English society. A book of her poems is published, and she finally gains her freedom. This amazing story, wide in scope, is based on fact and told convincingly from young Wheatley's point of view., This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back to health and teaches her to read and write. Soon her mistress recognises that the girl is a quick learner and talented. At the age of 12, a torrent of poetry begins to flow out of Wheatley. Proud of her achievements, her mistress organises readings in Boston's finest parlours and drawing rooms, and Wheatley's fame spreads. But even when many in Boston are calling her a prodigy and a genius, some remain unsure that a slave should be able to write, much less write poetry. When Phillis travels to London she is a media sensation, feted by the cream of English society. A book of her poems is published, and she finally gains her freedom. This amazing story, wide in scope, is based on fact and told convincingly from young Wheatley's point of view.
