Competency 2

I am posting competency 2 for my LS5013 course Information Storage and Retrieval.

If you are interested in learning more about African American Literature as well as its history, the Georgetown Law library blog site is a wonderful site to visit and get more knowledge about the lives of African Americans.

This blog lead me to visit the African American Odyssey exhibit that's highly documented and very educational. The African American Odyssey was so powerful and overwhelming to me in the beginning it caused me to want to read everything that was available. I had to put the breaks on and get back on track and realize why I was there in the first place.

I went to the site searching for African American writers and boy did I hit the jack pot. The site is laid out in chronological order and very friendly to navigate. The text and the history about African American lives have been well documented and preserved.

I started off searching an academic site: http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ this site head line read February is Black History Month. "This year's them is the Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas. It also stated "learn more by visiting the Law Library of Congress' online exhibit The African American Odyssey: A Quest for full Citizenship. And from there I found my first writer that I would like to post on my blog. One will find this site very informative. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammer/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html you can also just click on the Georgetown's.edu address above and it will take you directly to the site.


Phillis Wheatley's Love of Freedom
One of the most celebrated of early black writers, African-born Phillis Wheatley was captured when she was about eight years old and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston as a household servant. Educated by her Boston owners, the girl showed amazing aptitude. Soon she was writing and publishing poetry. This work, published in England where British societal leaders received and entertained Wheatley, includes affidavits affirming that Wheatley was a woman of unmixed African ancestry. In this volume, Wheatley discusses her African background and her love of freedom. Wheatley was freed as an adult. The George Town's Library have serveral copies and editions of Phillis Wheatley's poems.

Phillis Wheatley.Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral.London: A. Bell, 1773.Rare Book and Special Collections Division. (2-15)