Description: Gentleman's MagazinePHILLIS WHEATLEYMay, 1773 Original historic issue, quite the rarity due to the early mention, and publicity, of Phillis Wheatley by her owner John Wheatley who is introducing her to the British public with this letter/entreaty a few months before her first book of poetry is published in London: "Proposals having just been published for printing by subscription, some poems written by Phillis, a negro servant of Mr. Wheatley, of Boston, in New England, the following account has been received from her master. 'Phillis was bought from Africa to America in the year 1761, between seven and eight years of age, without any assistance from school education; and by only what she was taught in the family, she, in sixteen months time from her arrival, attained the English language... As to her writing, her own curiosity led her to it; and this she learned in so short a time....John Wheatley, Boston, 1772’” Followed by the following kind/complicated/layered/deeply racist remarks from the magazine: “...The poems were...written by Phillis, a young negro girl, who was but a few years since brought an uncultivated barbarian from Africa and has been, and now is, under the disadvantage of serving as a slave in a family in Boston...P.S. It is hoped (though it is not so expressed) that the profits of this publication will, in the first place, be applied toward purchasing the freedom of the author: and, if so, it is not doubted that every friend to the rights of humanity will liberally contribute to such an emancipation, both of mind and of body, from a condition always dreadful, but felt with double poignancy by genius and sensibility." Age-worn, some foxing and staining, text block separated into two parts, one engraving only, the fold-out map/plan of canals. Other contents include Lord North and the East India Company. ******We ship swiftly and with safety in mind.Thank you.
Price: 2500 USD
Location: Jamaica, Vermont
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Topic: Americana, Slavery, Poetry
Subject: Phillis Wheatley
Year Printed: 1773
Original/Facsimile: Original
