Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Present Valor
- 1 Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
- 2 Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 3 Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- 4 Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 5 Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
- 6 Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
- Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Verse
- Works Cited
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Present Valor
- 1 Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
- 2 Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 3 Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- 4 Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 5 Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
- 6 Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
- Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Verse
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023