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Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston

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Title
Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston
Names
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 (Author)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1864
Place: Boston
Publisher: Privately Printed by J. Wilson
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-961 [pt. 1-G]
Topics
Authors, Black
Tanner, Obour, active 1772-1779
Genres
Pamphlets
Notes
Content: Footnotes contain a brief account of the life of Phillis Wheatley, from the Boston Daily Advertiser, by Dr. N. B. Shurtleff.
Content: Introductory note signed: Charles Deane.
Content: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 7, p. 267-279.
Content: Seven "letters addressed to a Negro friend in Newport, R. I. (a young woman named Obour Tanner)" -p. 7.
Citation/reference: *ZZ-9650
Physical Description
Microfilms
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10234669
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f89262d0-c552-012f-97fa-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1753: Creator Born
  • 1784: Creator Died
  • 1864: Issued
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1864. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/926ff990-df40-a341-e040-e00a18062915

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/926ff990-df40-a341-e040-e00a18062915

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1864). Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/926ff990-df40-a341-e040-e00a18062915

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Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro slave poet of Boston