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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
    â€œOn Being Brought from Africa to America” (Wheatley)
    â€œOn 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
    â€œTo 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,