Tag: Middle Passage
Critical Fabulation in Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s ‘The Age of Phillis’
Phillis Wheatley, abducted from Africa and brought to America as an enslaved person in 1761, is not only the first African American to publish a book, but is also the first to obtain international recognition as a writer. A genius child, within four years of her enslavement in Boston (at about age 11), she had