Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet

Reverend Wallis C. Baxter IIIserves as Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church Southwest in District Heights, MD.

• Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction – “I Plead the First!”: Writing a New AmericaChapter 1: Phillis Wheatley, the Poet-TheologianChapter 2: Encountering God through the Preacher: Wheatley’s InfluencesChapter 3: The Creativity of the Spoken WordChapter 4: Created in the ImaginationChapter 5: Salvation is AvailableChapter 6: The Story behind the VoiceEpilogue – To Whom Much is GivenAppendixBibliography

In Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must be Born Again, Wallis Baxter, III, has not only added another significant scholarly voice (his own) to the still crucial conversation on liberation theology, he has also liberated this trailblazing 18th century bard from the confines of literary criticism and historicity that she may speak to a contemporary generation, desperately longing for another harmonious and efficacious rendering of freedom’s song.