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INDEX
Abolitionism
and slave literature
and the Fourth of July
as affected by the Wheatley case
David Walker and
Thomas Jefferson and
William Hamilton and
African Americans
capacity to produce literature
literary achievement
literary tradition
musical skill of
Thomas Jefferson’s criticism of
Thomas Jefferson’s servants
white views on
American Indians
American Revolution
Appeal in Four Articles (Walker)
Authorship, questioning of Wheatley’s
Baraka, Amiri
Barbé-Marbois, François, Marquis de
Bell, Archibald
Black Arts Movement
Blyden, Edward Wilmot
Boston Massacre (1770)
Boston Town Hall
Bowdoin, James
Brattle Street Church
Brown, William Wells
Byles, Mather
Carretta, Vincent
Chauncy, Charles
Clergy
Clotel, or, The President’s Daughter (Brown)
The Condition (Delany)
Constitution, U.S.
Cooper, Anna Julia
Cooper, Samuel
Criticism
of African-American writing
of Wheatley as ‘race traitor’
of Wheatley’s poetry
Dartmouth, William, Earl of
Dartmouth College
Declaration of Independence
DNA testing
Douglass, Frederick
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Ebony magazine
Entertainment for a Winter’s Evening (Green)
Finch, Timothy
Forten, Charlotte
Fourth of July
Franklin, Benjamin
Freedom
Wheatley on
Wheatley’s
Gayle, Addison Jr.
Green, Joseph
Grigo, Walter
Gross, Seymour
Gwinn, Peter
Hamilton, William
Hammon, Jupiter
Hancock, John
Hancock, Thomas
Harlem Renaissance
Harvard College
Hemings, Sally
Henderson, Stephen
Hollis Street
Congregational
Church
Hubbard, Thomas
Hume, David
Hutchinson, Anne
Hutchinson, Thomas
Jamison, Angelene
Jefferson, Thomas
as inspiration to slaves
as leader
impact on African-American literature
and Sally Hemings
views on African Americans
Johnson, James Weldon
Jones, John Paul
Kant, Immanuel
Kennedy, John F.
Lathrop, John
Legacy, Wheatley’s literary
Literacy, Wheatley’s
Loggins, Vernon
Mason, Julian
Mather, Samuel
The Militant Black Writer (Henderson)
Mphalele, Ezekiel
Nickol, Robert
Nobel Prize
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson)
Oates, Joyce Carol
Occom, Samson
Old Colony House
Oliver, Andrew
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” (Wheatley)
“On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770” (Wheatley)
Peters, John
Phillis (schooner)
Poems on Several Occasions (Byles)
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)
Poetry, Wheatley’s
anagram of
Benjamin Franklin and
manuscripts
on famous figures
publication of
Thomas Jefferson and
Poets
Francis Williams
James Bowdoin
Joseph Green
Jupiter Hammon
Samuel Cooper
Publication
of Wheatley’s first works
of Wheatley’s later works
Purvis, Robert
Redmond, Charles Lenox
Reising, Russell
Religion
Robinson, William
Rush, Benjamin
Shields, John
Slaveholders
Slaves
literature by
Wheatley as
white slaves
Slave traders
Smith, Eleanor
Smith, James McCune
Smuggling
Soyinka, Wole
Stamp Act of 1765
Sugar Act of 1764
Thurman, Wallace
“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth” (Wheatley)
A Tribute for the Negro (Armistead)
Vigilant Committee A Voice from the South (Cooper) Voltaire
Walker, David
Walker, Margaret
Warren, Joseph
Washington, George
The Way of the World (Gayle)
Wheatley, John
Wheatley, Mary
Wheatley, Nathaniel
Wheatley, Phillis
and abolitionism
as slave
Benjamin Franklin and
criticism of
freedom of
literacy of
literary legacy of
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
poetry of
question of authorship
Thomas Jefferson and
Wheatley, Susanna
Whitefield, George
Williams, Francis
Woolbridge, Thomas
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