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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pelaez, Monica (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1800-1899
American poetry > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > Poetry.
Antislavery movements > United States > Poetry.
Abolitionists > Poetry.
Poésie américaine > 19e siècle.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Poésie.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Poésie.
Abolitionnistes > Poésie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Abolitionists
American poetry
Antislavery movements
Slavery
United States
Poetry
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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