"Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
The following analysis of antislavery poetry evidences the shared language of abolition that incorporated the societal dynamics of law, gender, and race through shared themes of family, the assumed expectation of freedom, and legal references. This thesis focuses upon four women antislavery poets an...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2015
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/95 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=history_theses |