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Poems on Slavery is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in support of the United States anti-slavery efforts. With one exception, the collection of poems were written at sea by Longfellow in October 1842. [1]
She was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry, which was published in 1773. Her collection, was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
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.
Mary Birkett Card (28 December 1774–1817), was an Irish based British poet, abolitionist, and feminist, best remembered for her anti-slavery poem, A Poem on the African Slave Trade published when she was seventeen.
11 lis 2015 · The poem’s stark images of the cruel, calculating, violent, and exploitative nature of the slave trade, articulated in a lyrical, ironic multi-vocal form, makes it among the most provocative representations of slavery in African-American poetry. It’s one of several poems in Hayden’s oeuvre in which he uses the breadth of his language ...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s poem, ‘The Slave Mother,’ portrays the harrowing experiences of an enslaved woman torn from her child. With emotive language and vivid imagery, Harper delves into the emotional depths of maternal love and the devastating impact of slavery on familial bonds.
In the 30-year struggle to abolish slavery, John Greenleaf Whittier played an important role as a poet, as a politician, and as a moral force.
