"Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s

"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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Main Author: Campbell, Kathleen
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2015
Subjects:
antislavery poetry
abolition
transatlantic
gender
modern slavery
Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/95
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spelling ndltd-GEORGIA-oai-scholarworks.gsu.edu-history_theses-10992015-07-18T15:40:19Z "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s Campbell, Kathleen 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 and analyzes their poems and their individual experiences with their sociohistorical contexts. The poems of Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Phillis Wheatley, and Sarah Forten show this shared transatlantic language of abolition. 2015-08-11T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/95 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=history_theses History Theses ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University antislavery poetry abolition transatlantic gender modern slavery
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abolition
transatlantic
gender
modern slavery
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abolition
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gender
modern slavery
Campbell, Kathleen
"Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
description 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 and analyzes their poems and their individual experiences with their sociohistorical contexts. The poems of Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Phillis Wheatley, and Sarah Forten show this shared transatlantic language of abolition.
author Campbell, Kathleen
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title "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
title_short "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
title_full "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
title_fullStr "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
title_full_unstemmed "Bid Us Rise from Slavery and Live": Antislavery Poetry and the Shared Language of Transatlantic Abolition, 1770s-1830s
title_sort "bid us rise from slavery and live": antislavery poetry and the shared language of transatlantic abolition, 1770s-1830s
publisher ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
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