Poems On Slavery

This is a short volume of abolitionist poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1842. As Wikipedia notes, Longfellow himself was not entirely satisfied with his work: "However, as Longfellow himself wrote, the poems were 'so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast'. A critic for The Dial agreed, calling it 'the thinnest of all Mr. Longfellow's thin books; spirited and polished like its forerunners; but the topic would warrant a deeper tone'. The New England Anti-Slavery Association, however, was satisfied enough with the collection to reprint it for further distribution." Despite these shortcomings, however, this volume is of historical importance and will interest many listeners.

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This is a collection of eight anti-slavery poems, published for the first time in 1843. Longfellow has written most of the poems during a short sea trip. The book received mixed receptions and it was quite controversial in those times, mostly due to its message.
Longfellow's reaction was quite appe

I know hardly a thing about 19th c poets, let alone Longfellow, but apparently HWL was the most popular poet of his day. For him to publish these in 1842 may not have been much, but it wasn't nothing, and indeed the New England Anti-Slavery Association was happy enough with this collection to reprin

This collection, published in 1842, vividly describes the predicament of slavery. It makes a case of natural philosophy of why slavery is immoral. Works like Longfellow's began to sway the northern U.S. towards the the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery (through the bloody carnage o

Romantic.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poems on Slavery

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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