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8 lip 2020 · We thought we’d do something that’s long overdue here at Interesting Literature: share some of the most powerful, damning, and emotionally moving poems about slavery and the plight of African slaves over the centuries, from poets writing both in Britain and America, both black and white.
In poetry, poets, both black and white, dealt with the plight of African slaves through emotionally moving poems. In this section, poems that deal with the life and emotions of slaves, across cultures, nationalities, and religions are explored.
Poems about slavery confront the dark chapters of history, shedding light on the inhumane and unjust treatment endured by enslaved individuals. These poems often express outrage at the oppression, violence, and dehumanization suffered by slaves.
The major problem of this study is the English anti-slavery poetry rhetoric from 1780 to 1865 that leads to abolishment of slavery, slave trade and racial discrimination in the United Kingdom, its domains and America. Accordingly, this thesis focused upon ten antislavery poets.
The major problem of this study is the English anti-slavery poetry rhetoric from 1780 to 1865 that leads to abolishment of slavery, slave trade and racial discrimination in the United Kingdom, its domains and America. Accordingly, this thesis focused upon ten antislavery poets.
The researcher has used the formalistic and deconstructionist approaches to analyse and interpret their poems: William Cowper, Hannah More, by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Phyllis Wheatley, Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
‘Address to Slavery’ by Samuel Wright is a poetic invocation to “slavery” that contains a request for emancipating the slaves. In this poem, Wright addresses “slavery” for bringing in the main idea. Here, the poet requests the judges and magistrates to return the slaves, their freedom, and land.
