The Age of Phillis. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Fathering #244Desk of Mary Wheatley, Where She Might Have Taught the Child (Re)named Phillis to Read46Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston47Phillis Wheatley Peruses Volumes of the Classics Belonging to Her Neighbor, the Reverend Mather Byles49Lost Letter #2: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Samson Occom, London50Lost Letter #3: Samson Occom, London, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston51Susannah Wheatley Tends to Phillis in Her Asthmatic Suffering53the mistress attempts to instruct her slave in the writing of a poem54Lost Letter #4: Samson Occom, Mohegan, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston55Lost Letter #5: Susannah Wheatley, Boston, to Samson Occom, Mohegan57Lost Letter #6: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Mary Wheatley Lathrop, Boston58The Age of PhillisBOOK: ENLIGHTENMENT61The African-German Philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo Returns to His Home Region in West Africa to Become a Sage and (Possibly) a Goldsmith63Illustration: Petrus Camper’s Measurement of the Skull of a Negro Male65the beautiful and the sublime66Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Free Mulatto, and Her White Cousin, the Lady Elizabeth Murray, Great-Nieces of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench68Three Cases Decided by William Murray71Found Poem: RacismBOOK: AWAKENING75Still Life with God #176Phillis Wheatley is Baptized at Old South Church77Lost Letter #7: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Obour Tanner, Newport78Lost Letter #8: Obour Tanner, Newport, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston79Thomas Wooldridge Demands that Phillis Wheatley Instantly Compose a Poem in Honor of His Friend, William, the Right Honorable Earl of Dartmouth80How Phillis Wheatley Might Have Obtained the Approval of Eighteen Prominent White Men of Boston to Publish Her Book of Poetry83Lost Letter #9: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Obour Tanner, Newport84Susannah and Phillis Wheatley Arrive at the Home of Ruth Barrell Andrews for a Discussion and Recitation of Poems with Various White Ladies of BostonMUSES: CONVENING89Blues: Yemoja92chorus of the mothers-griotte93Isabell94Definitions of Hagar Blackmore95The Replevin of Elizabeth Freeman (Also Known as Mum Bett)96The Journey of Ona Judge, Enslaved Servant of Martha Washington, Wife of President George Washington99For the First of Several Times, Belinda Sutton, Former Enslaved Servant of the House of Isaac Royall, Petitions the Massachusetts General Court for a Pension in Her Old AgeBOOK: VOYAGE103Phillis Wheatley Embarks from Boston on Her Sea Voyage to London105Lost Letter #10: Mary Wheatley Lathrop, Boston, to Phillis Wheatley, London106Phillis Wheatley Walks beside Her Master’s Son, Nathaniel, on the Streets of London107Ravenous Wolves in the Tower of London109Illustration: A Mungo Macaroni / A Black Englishman of Sartorial Splendor110Lost Letter #11: Phillis Wheatley, London, to Obour Tanner, Newport112Lost Letter #12: Phillis Wheatley, London, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston113Lost Letter #13: Nathaniel Wheatley, London, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston114Found Poem: ProofBOOK: LOVE119Lost Letter #14: John Peters, Boston, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston120Lost Letter #15: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to John Peters, Boston121Lost Letter #16: Susannah Wheatley, Boston, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston122Lost Letter #17: Samson Occom, Mohegan, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston124Lost Letter #18: John Thornton, London, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston125Free Negro Courtship #1126Fragment #1: First Draft of an Extant Letter, Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to John Thornton, London127Free Negro Courtship #2129Lost Letter #19: Phillis Wheatley, Providence, to John Peters, Boston130Lost Letter #20: John Peters, Boston, to Phillis Wheatley, ProvidenceCATALOG: REVOLUTION133(Original) Black Lives Matter: Irony134Blues: Harpsichord, or, Boston Massacre135Felix (of Unknown Last Name) Writes the First of Several Petitions That Will Be Offered by Africans to the Massachusetts General Court, Asking for the Freedom of All Slaves136lemuel haynes, a future minister, a formerly indentured servant, and son of an englishwoman and an african, joins the minutemen of his town137Fragment #2: First Draft of an Extant Letter, Abigail Adams, Boston, to John Adams, Philadelphia138Salem Poor Fights at the Battle of Bunker Hill139Fragment #3: First Draft of an Extant Letter, Phillis Wheatley, Providence, to General George Washington, Cambridge Headquarters140Lord Dunmore Decides to Offer Freedom to Slaves to Fight in Support of His Majesty, King George III141General George Washington Allows the Enlistment of Free (though Not Enslaved) Negroes in the Continental Army142General George Washington Rereads a Poem and Letter He Received from Phillis Wheatley, and Agonizes Over His Response143Smallpox Decimates the Ranks of Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, Camped on Land and Sea by the Colony of Virginia144An Issue of Mercy #3145Harry Washington, a Negro Runaway Formerly Belonging to George Washington, Sails on L’Abondence, Bound for Port Roseway, Nova Scotia146The Death of Former President George Washington147revolution: black sortie, black redoubléBOOK: LIBERTY151Lost Letter #21: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Obour Tanner, Newport152Still Life with God #2153Lost Letter #22: Obour Tanner, Newport, to Phillis Wheatley, Boston154After