Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral

Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca.Scipio Moorhead, ca. 1750 - unknown British Archibald Bell

1770

Medium: ink on paper with leather and wood
Genre: Poems
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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poems

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poetryslaveryU.S. History, Colonial period, 1600-1775

About

A first edition of the book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, while she was enslaved to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston. The book has a brown leather cover, the original morocco spine label, and a frontispiece featuring a portrait of Wheatley by Scipio Morehead. Along the top of the portrait are the words [PHILLIS WHEATLEY, NEGRO SERVANT TO MR. JOHN WHEATLEY OF BOSTON]. The book also has the armorial bookplate of Daniel P. Griswold, a small circular ticket from the Library of George W. Brinely, as well as a larger one from Henry Weston Sackett.

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<I>Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral</I>

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<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans</I>

<I>"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age</I>

<I>Phillis Wheatley</I>

<I>Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which Is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry</I>

<I>Boston Evening-Post Numb. 1982</I>

<I>"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956</I>

<I>Phillis Wheatley</I>

<I>Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters): A Critical Attempt and a Bibliography of Her Writings</I>

<I>The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices</I>

<I>Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave</I>

<I>An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species</I>

<I>"To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady" in Observations upon Negro-Slavery</I>