Pelaez, Monica. <br/><br/>
Lyrical Liberators :  The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831-1865. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (475 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821446089 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American poetry-19th century.<br/>Slavery-United States-Poetry.<br/>Antislavery movements-United States-Poetry.<br/>Abolitionists-Poetry.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS595.S65 .L97 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811.30803552