Download or read book Amazing Grace written by James G. Basker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Download or read book I Lay My Stitches Down written by Cynthia Grady and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirroring 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."--

Download or read book The Poet Slave of Cuba written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Download or read book The Poems of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects poems by the young Black slave with critical commentaries on her short career

Download or read book Poems by a Slave written by George Moses Horton and published by Historic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LARGE PRINT EDITION: GEORGE, who is the author of the following poetical effusions, is a Slave, the property of Mr. James Horton, of Chatham County, North Carolina. He has been in the habit, some years past, of producing poetical pieces, sometimes on suggested subjects, to such persons as would write them while he dictated. Several compositions of his have already appeared in the Raleigh Register. Some have made their way into the Boston newspapers, and have evoked expressions of approbation and surprise. Many persons have now become much interested in the promotion of his prospects, some of whom are elevated in office and literary attainments. They are solicitous that efforts at length be made to obtain by subscription, a sum sufficient for his emancipation, upon the condition of his going in the vessel which shall first afterwards sail for Liberia. It is his earnest and only wish to become a member of that Colony, to enjoy its privileges, and apply his industry and mental abilities to the promotion of its prospects and his own. It is upon these terms alone, that the efforts of those who befriend his views are intended to have a final effect.Large Print

Download or read book Poems on Slavery written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems on Slavery written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Lay My Stitches Down written by Cynthia Grady and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith, a slave fleeing on the Underground Railroad. This moving and eloquent set of poems, brought to life by vivid and colorful artwork from Michele Wood, offers a timeless witness to the hardship endured by America's slaves. Each poem is supplemented by a historical note.

Download or read book Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral written by Phillis Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems by a Slave written by George Moses Horton and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hireling and Slave written by William John Grayson and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hireling and the Slave Chicora and other Poems written by William J. Grayson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Download or read book The slave and other poetical pieces an appendix to Poems written by Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Slave and Other Poetical Pieces Being an Appendix to Poems written by Richard MANT (successively Bishop of Killaloe, and of Down, Connor and Dromore.) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Poetry of Slavery written by Marcus Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to collect the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery.

Download or read book Slavery a Poem written by Hannah More and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phillis Wheatley written by Vincent Carretta and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals 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.