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Garland, 1984.
    Shields, John C., ed. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley . New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

    Nine biographies of Boston’s eighteen “most respectable characters” can be found in the American National Biography , 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), including the following:
    Calhoon, Robert M. “Andrew Oliver.” Vol. 16, 684-86;
    â€”——. “Thomas Hutchinson.” Vol. 11, 597-600; Fowler, William M., Jr. “John Hancock.” Vol. 9, 968-70;
    Kershaw, Gordon E. “James Bowdoin.” Vol. 3, 272-74;
    Lippy, Charles A. “Charles Chauncy.” Vol. 4, 753-55;
    Lowance, Mason I. “Samuel Mather.” Vol. 14, 693;
    McCarl, Mary Rhinelander. “Mather Byles.” Vol. 4, 130-31;
    Mills, Frederick V., Sr. “Samuel Cooper.” Vol. 5, 456-57;
    Robinson, David M. “Joseph Green.” Vol. 9, 499-500.
    In addition, biographical data on John Erving and
    James Pitts can be found in the ANB entry for
James Bowdoin; Erving is Bowdoin’s father-in-law and Pitts is his brother-in-law. Information about Thomas Hubbard, Ebenezer Pemberton, and John Moorhead is found in William H. Robinson’s Phillis Wheatley and Her Writings (New York: Garland, 1984).
Secondary Sources on Phillis Wheatley and Thomas Jefferson
    Akers, Charles. “‘Our Modern Egyptians’: Phillis Wheatley and the Whig Campaign Against Slavery in Revolutionary Boston.” Journal of Negro History 60 (1975).
    Applegate, Ann. “Phillis Wheatley: Her Critics and Her Contribution.” Negro American Literature Forum 9 (1975): 123-26.
    Armistead, Wilson. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind, with Particular Reference to the African Race . Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970.

    Bacon, Martha. Puritan Promenade . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
    Baker, Houston A., Jr. The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
    â€”——. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
    Baym, Max I. A History of Literary Aesthetics in America . New York: Frederick Ungar, 1973.
    Beard, Eva. “A Friend in High Places: Thomas Jefferson.” The Crisis 54.4 (April 1947): 111-24.
    Bennett, Paula. “Phillis Wheatley’s Vocation and the Paradox of the ‘Afric Muse.’” PMLA 113.1 (1998): 64-76.
    Berman, Eleanor Davidson. Thomas Jefferson Among the Arts: An Essay in Early American Esthetics . New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
    Bly, Antonio T. “Wheatley’s ‘On the Affray in King Street.’” Explicator 56.4 (1998): 177-80.

    ______. “Wheatley’s ‘On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age.’” Explicator 58.1 (1999): 10-13.
    ______. “Wheatley’s ‘To the University of Cambridge in New-England.’” Explicator 55.4 (1997): 205-8.
    Blyden, Edward Wilmot. Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race . London: W. B. Whittington, 1887.
    Boulton, Alexander O. “The American Paradox: Jeffersonian Equality and Racial Science.” American Quarterly 47.3 (September 1995): 467-93.
    Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. Negro Builders and Heroes . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
    Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, ed. Early Negro American Writers: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935. 31-55.

    Bridenbaugh, Carl. “The First Published Poems of Phillis Wheatley.” New England Quarterly 42 (December 1969): 583-84.
    Brodie, Fawn M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History . New York: Bantam Books, 1975.
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