Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Most of the works are from the period between 1760 and 1810, reflecting growth in public awareness about slavery. [1] Most of the poetry is antislavery, with a few exceptions including verse by John Saffin and James Boswell, who defended slavery as an institution. [1] Published in 2002 by Yale University Press, a revised edition was released in ...
This poem is part of the American captivity narrative genre. [7] The attack occurred in an area of Deerfield called "The Bars", which was a colonial term for a meadow. [8] The poem was preserved orally until 1855, when it was published in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts. [1] [9] This poem is the only surviving work by ...
In 1788 Stanfield published an account of his experience of the slave trade in Observations on a Guinea Voyage in a series of letters addressed to the Rev. Thomas Clarkson, and in the following year a poem, The Guinea Voyage (London). In 1807 both works were published at Edinburgh in one volume.
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
The sailing of slaves in the domestic slave trade is known as "sold down the river," indicating slaves being sold from Louisville, Kentucky which was a slave trading city and supplier of slaves. Louisville, Kentucky, Virginia, and other states in the Upper South supplied slaves to the Deep South carried on boats going down the Mississippi River ...
It was the first book on the Atlantic slave trade since The American Slave Trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression published in 1900 by John Randolph Spears. It had a narrative format and was widely recognized in the popular press at the time including Time magazine and the New York Times and was praised in academic articles.
Falconbridge gained his experience on slave ships before he met the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson [3] following which he became a member of the Anti-Slavery Society. Clarkson was the author of a pamphlet entitled A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition, published in 1787. Clarkson had a high ...
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] The poems were reprinted as anti-slavery tracts two different times during 1843.