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Lyrical Liberators : The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831-1865.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (475 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821446089
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lyrical LiberatorsDDC classification:
  • 811.30803552
LOC classification:
  • PS595.S65 .L97 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Calls for Action -- 2. The Murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy -- 3. Fugitive Slaves -- 4. The Assault on Senator Charles Sumner -- 5. John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry -- 6. Slaves and Death -- 7. Slave Mothers -- 8. The South -- 9. Equality -- 10. Freedom -- 11. Atonement -- 12. Wartime -- 13. Emancipation, the Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment -- Notes -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index of Poem Titles -- Index of Poets.
Summary: Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Calls for Action -- 2. The Murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy -- 3. Fugitive Slaves -- 4. The Assault on Senator Charles Sumner -- 5. John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry -- 6. Slaves and Death -- 7. Slave Mothers -- 8. The South -- 9. Equality -- 10. Freedom -- 11. Atonement -- 12. Wartime -- 13. Emancipation, the Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment -- Notes -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index of Poem Titles -- Index of Poets.

Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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