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Lyrical liberators : the American antislavery movement in verse, 1831-1865 /

Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets, who put pen to paper during an era when speaking out against slavery could mean risking your life. Indeed, William Lloyd Garrison was dragged through the streets by a Boston mob before a planned lecture, and publisher Elijah P. L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pelaez, Monica (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Calls for action
  • The murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy
  • Fugitive slaves
  • The assault on Senator Charles Sumner
  • John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry
  • Slaves and death
  • Slave mothers
  • The South
  • Equality
  • Freedom
  • Atonement
  • Wartime
  • Emancipation, the Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.