The Black romantic revolution : abolitionist poets at the end of slavery / Matt Sandler.

First edition.

London ; New York : Verso Books, 2020.

©2020

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers-enslaved and free-allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility. They borrowed from the European tradition of Romanticism-its lyric poetry, prophetic visions-to write, speak, and sing their hopes for what freedom might mean. Authors like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George Moses Horton, Albery Allson Whitman, and Joshua McCarter Simpson conceived the Civil War as a revolutionary upheaval on par with Europe's stormy Age of Revolutions"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Sandler, Matt, The black romantic revolution First edition. London ; New York : Verso Books, 2020.

English

December 02, 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index.