Poems on Slavery
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 42
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Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1466889632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet. Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty. Powerful, haunting poems and breathtaking illustrations create a portrait of a life in which even the pain of slavery could not extinguish the capacity for hope. The Poet Slave of Cuba is the winner of the 2008 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Latino Interest.
Author: Cynthia Grady
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 0802853862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMirroring the structure of a quilt, this volume of poems are built in three layers, representing biblical/spiritual reference, musical reference, and references to sewing/quilting itself. These are the poems of American slavery."--
Author: James G. Basker
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 779
ISBN-13: 0300091729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than two hundred and fifty poets, both famous and unknown, the book charts the emergence of slavery as part of the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. The book includes: poems by forty women, ranging from abolitionists Hannah More and Mary Robinson to Frances Seymour, the Countess of Herford; works by more than twenty African or African American poets, including familiar names (Phillis Wheatley), intriguing figures (Afro-Dutch Latin scholar Johannes Capitein), and newly rediscovered black poets (an anonymous veteran of the Revolutionary War); and poetry by such canonical writers as Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Boswell, Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge." "The poems speak of the themes of slavery: capture, torture, endurance, rebellion, thwarted romances, and spiritual longing. They also raise intriguing questions about the contradications between cultural attitudes and public policy of the time. Writers such as these, suggests editor James Basker, were not complicit in the imperial project or indifferent about slavery but actually laid the groundwork for the political changes that would follow."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Richard Robert Madden
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486115291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author: George Moses Horton
Publisher:
Published: 1837
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781789874778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a volume of poems written by an African American who was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina.
Author: Phillis Wheatley
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0820333387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.
Author: James Montgomery
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Published: 2017-08-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780649109746
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