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- Title
Provocation: Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World.
- Authors
Erkkila, Betsy
- Abstract
Many of the major crowd actions in Boston during the American Revolution—the Stamp Act riots of 1765, the arrival of 4,000 British Troops at Long Wharf in 1768, the murder of Christopher Snider in a street action in 1770, and the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770—took place on or around King Street, the street where Phillis Wheatley lived. As indicated by Wheatley's poems on the King's repeal of the Stamp Act, the murder of Snider, and the Boston Massacre, this essay argues that more so than we have imagined, Wheatley was probably a participant in the street actions on King Street and other crowd actions in Revolutionary Boston during the war.
- Subjects
WHEATLEY, Phillis, 1753-1784; POLITICAL participation in literature; AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; BOSTON Massacre, 1770; GREAT Britain. Stamp Act (1765); PUBLIC demonstrations; POEMS on Various Subjects, Religious &; Moral (Book); REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period); 18TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 2021, Vol 56, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eal.2021.0034