Hang A Thousand Trees With Ribbons
Mass market paperback in good condition. Some wear to cover. Crease along spine bottom back cover.
“When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.”
Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave, a young girl is purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis Wheatley—as she comes to be known—has an eager mind and a knack for learning that leads her on an unusual path for a slave. When the Wheatley’s discover her talent for writing poetry, they mold her future by having her “perform” for influential guests. She is sent to England where her work is finally published—the first book of poetry by an African American woman.
Mass market paperback in good condition. Some wear to cover. Crease along spine bottom back cover.
“When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.”
Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave, a young girl is purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis Wheatley—as she comes to be known—has an eager mind and a knack for learning that leads her on an unusual path for a slave. When the Wheatley’s discover her talent for writing poetry, they mold her future by having her “perform” for influential guests. She is sent to England where her work is finally published—the first book of poetry by an African American woman.
Mass market paperback in good condition. Some wear to cover. Crease along spine bottom back cover.
“When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.”
Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave, a young girl is purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis Wheatley—as she comes to be known—has an eager mind and a knack for learning that leads her on an unusual path for a slave. When the Wheatley’s discover her talent for writing poetry, they mold her future by having her “perform” for influential guests. She is sent to England where her work is finally published—the first book of poetry by an African American woman.
ISBN 0-15-200877-2
Ann Rinaldi
1996