The Black Romantic Revolution : : Abolitionist Poets at the end of Slavery
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Introduction: The Fugitive Romance -- Hereditary Bondsmen, Strike the Blow! -- The Supernatural Avenger -- The Seething Brain -- The Uprising of Women -- Freedom Is an Empty Name -- Conclusion: Dreams and Nightmares.
"During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers-enslaved and free-allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility. They borrowed from the European tradition of Romanticism-its lyric poetry, prophetic visions-to write, speak, and sing their hopes for what freedom might mean. Authors like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George Moses Horton, Albery Allson Whitman, and Joshua McCarter Simpson conceived the Civil War as a revolutionary upheaval on par with Europe's stormy Age of Revolutions"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Verso Books, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 256 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781788735445
SUBJECTS
American poetry -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Liberty in literature.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans in literature.