Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Poems About Slavery
Today’s blog entry is culled from my Africana scrap album. This is about a series of poems that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about slavery. I came across an EBay list of an original copy of the poems in an Ebay auction several years ago. It was listed on EBay for $1, 900. Details of the book are as follows: Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Title of the Book: Poems On Slavery Publisher: John Owens Place of Publication: Cambridge Date: 1842 Longfellow was criticized for writing a series of poems s out Slavery. His response was that he felt it was a shame to deal with selling human beings. You can read the poems on slavery for free at Project Gutenberg <www.gutenberg.org> The 1842 poems on slavery includes: The Good Part: That Shall Not be taken Away The Quadroon Girl The Slave in the Dismal Swamp; The Slave Singing at Midnight; The Warning; The Witnesses; To William E. Channing. You can also read the poems online at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : a Maine Histor...