The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence with Da

Waldstreicher's latest book has been praised by the NYT and Oprah as placing Black poet Wheatley “smack in the middle of the raging debate over the relationship between the American Revolution and slavery.” Waldstreicher not only traces her life but deftly “recreates the 18th-century intellectual world Wheatley actually lived in.”