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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.
contemporary African American and diasporic poets published poems and poetic sequences that turn to the history of slavery to shed new light on repressed or forgotten aspects of the slave system, and to explore the continuing reach of its violence. These book-length poetic projects – among
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.
Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660—1810/edited by James G. Basker. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-300-09172-9 (alk. paper)
This paper is to closely focus on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic collection: ‘Poems on Slavery’. Published in 1842, this American piece is often viewed as an anti-slavery tract and...
The earliest unambiguously abolitionist poem, John Bicknell and Thomas Day’s The Dying Negro (1773–1775), unmistakably, if problematically, deploys the rhetoric of sensibility.
Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810. Edited by james G. basker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 784 pages. REVIEW 1 In a heroic undertaking of nearly 800 pages, James G. Basker has assembled approximately 400 poems, or poetic fragments, about slavery that were published in English by more than 250 writers. He ...
