Phillis Wheatley’s “On Recollection” in Gentlemen's Magazine with Contemporary Commentary on Her Enslavement and Identifying Her as a Genius, 1773
[African American][Slavery and Abolition][Poetry] Wheatley, Phillis. “On Recollection” (1773), published in The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, an early transatlantic appearance of poetry by an enslaved African woman whose authorship directly challenged eighteenth-century racial ideology. Printed in London the same year as her volume "Poems on Various Subjects", this contribution.....
