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Lyrical liberators : the American antislavery movement in verse, 1831-1865 /

Lyrical liberators : the American antislavery movement in verse, 1831-1865 / edited by Monica Pelaez. - xvi, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration (some color) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and indexes.

Introduction -- Calls for action -- The murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy -- Fugitive slaves -- The assault on Senator Charles Sumner -- John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry -- Slaves and death -- Slave mothers -- The South -- Equality -- Freedom -- Atonement -- Wartime -- Emancipation, the Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.

9780821422793 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821422809 (pb : alk. paper)

2017053683


American poetry--19th century.
Slavery--United States--Poetry.
Antislavery movements--United States--Poetry.
Abolitionists--Poetry.

PS595.S65 / L97 2018

811/.30803552

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