While reading these chapters, particularly the latter, I thought of Catherine Brekus's *Sarah Osborn's World*. In telling Osborn's story, Brekus details the many channels and forms that the religious work of early American women took (in part because formal access to the pulpit is mostly off-limits to them).

Thinking of Phillis Wheatley as doing *evangelical* work as a young poet/a young woman/a young enslaved person invites us to think of Phillis Wheatley as working in the tradition of female preaching, working in the same world, in fact as Sarah Osborn -- whose own relationship to race and slavery was of course quite complicated.

I am looking forward to thinking more about these two works together alongside each other.

#SarahOsborn
#FemalePreaching
#GreatAwakening #PhillisWheatley

2/2

David Waldstreicher - The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).

Started this last night, really enjoying it. The project Waldstreicher pursues here -- that of deeply contextualizing Wheatley's life and writings and understanding her as actively engaged with the 18th-century Atlantic world(s) -- feels like a minor revelation already, and I'm not that far in! More to come.

(I am trying something new with sharing passages and thoughts on my reading: a "root" post for the book/volume, commentary and shared passages will be added as replies. So additional commentary will be added to this post as a series of replies. For those who are uninterested, this may make it easier to mute a single conversation and unclutter your timeline.)

#NowReading #PhillisWheatley

#PhillisWheatley: The unsung #Black #poet who shaped the #US bbc.com/travel/article… via @bbc_travel

Very interesting! #EarlyAmericanLiterature #PhillisWheatley // UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley | University at Albany

https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2023-ualbany-professor-finds-new-poem-famed-early-american-poet-phillis-wheatley