Why do we talk about Phillis Wheatley and the American Revolution? Vincent Carretta, Professor emeritus of the University of Maryland, and author of Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage joins us to talk about Wheatley's life, career, and influence. Professor Caretta has just edited The Writings of Phillis Wheatley , as well as the writings of The Letters of Ignatius Sancho , and he has written Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. We discuss these writers in this Revolutionary moment in the Black Atlantic.