Phillis Wheatley portrait

Scipio Moorhead

Image

Title: Phillis Wheatley portrait
Description: Phillis Wheatley portrait, frontispiece to her published poems
Bibliographic Citation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1629684
Creator: Scipio Moorhead
Type: image
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1629684
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--image-0294
IIIF Manifest: https://sjsu-library.github.io/unionist/img/derivatives/iiif/unionist--image-0294/manifest.json
Category: Image
Related Transcription: unionist--text-0227
Caption: Phillis Wheatley's poetic talents were always up for debate between proponents of Black human rights and white supremacists in the Abolitionist era. Suffice to say that her poetry - both in its craft and in its specific situated insights - has stood the test of time.