Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in English, using her poetry to ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellows "Poems on Slavery" is a collection of poignant and powerful poems that challenge societal norms and shed light on the brutality of the slavery system. Longfellows poetic ...

This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located in the shadow of Wall Street. Actor and poet David Mills will read ...

There are several poems dealing with the abolition of slavery. These were composed and published on both sides of the Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by writers on all ...

‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race ...