Poems on Slavery by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Poems on Slavery" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a collection of poems published in 1842. Written mostly at sea during a storm-tossed voyage from England, these eight poems champion the anti-slavery cause through vivid portraits of enslaved people—from a captive dreaming of his African kingdom to voices rising from a sunken slave ship. Longfellow risked his commercial success and public reputation by publishing this controversial work, fulfilling his friend's request to write
"stirring words that shall move the whole land." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 24030916 |
| Title | Poems on Slavery |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_on_Slavery |
| Contents | To William E. Channing -- The slave's dream -- The good part -- The slave in the Dismal Swamp -- The slave singing at midnight -- The witnesses -- The quadroon girl -- The warning. |
| Credits |
Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Slavery -- United States -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 44398 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-44398-0 |
| Release Date | Dec 9, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 766 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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