Poetry
Up one levelA collection of antislavery poetry. The work included here is primarily popular poetry from the early-to-mid nineteenth century.
- Address Read at the Opening of Pennsylvania Hall
- Tract with a dedication poem by John Greenleaf Whittier for the May 1838 opening of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia; the hall was burned down the same weekend by an anti-abolitionist mob. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Anti-Slavery Harp; A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings
- Collection of antislavery songs, compiled by William Wells Brown (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848). Digitized by the University of Virginia.
- Anti-Slavery Poems
- Collection of poems by leading antebellum antislavery poet John Pierpont (Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform
- John Greenleaf Whittier's canon of antislavery poetry, in a reprint of the original 1850 edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1888). Digitized by the American Verse Project, University of Michigan.
- Christmas, and Poems on Slavery for Christmas, 1843
- A set of Christmas and antislavery poems published by Thomas Hill (1818-1891) for the Boston antislavery fair. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Longfellow and Whittier on Slavery
- An undated 1840s British tract featuring antislavery poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Nebraska
- An epic poem on slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; published anonymously but attributable to journalist-poet George Washington Bungay (Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1854). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Night of Freedom
- Topical political long poem against slavery, written by William Wallace Hebbard (Boston: Samuel Chism, 1857). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Poems
- An 1883 volume of mixed evangelical and antislavery poems, by African American abolitionist Alfred Gibbs Campbell. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans
- Historical long poem by Joseph Samson (Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1790). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- George Russell Commonplace Book
- A scrapbook of antislavery poetry collected by George Russell from the Massachusetts Abolitionist during 1839-40. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Slavery - A Poem
- A long poem published as an antislavery tract by an anonymous author (Concord, NH, 1856). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Slave Mother
- A long poem on a fugitive slave-mother by John Collins, published for the 1855 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair in Philadelphia. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Slaveholders Rebellion
- An antislavery long poem published at the conclusion of the Civil War by David Plumb. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Social Conflict of Ages; A Rhyme for the Time
- A popular political long poem published by 'the carriers of the Salem Gazette,' on New Years Day, 1857. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Sunlight Upon the Landscape and Other Poems
- This collection of antislavery poetry, published in 1853 by a pseudonymous 'Daughter of Kentucky,' is probably attributable to Mattie Griffith Browne (1825?-1906). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Tocsin
- Broadside containing a poem by John Pierpont; probably published prior to 1843. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Thoughts on Slavery. A Poem.
- A long poem on slavery by Lewis Stevens (Pulaski, NY, 1854). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- The Underground Railroad
- A single-page broadsheet poem on the Underground Railroad by Cecilia Devere (1836-1912), a Shaker community member in New Lebanon, New York. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Voices from Slavery
- Long poem published by an anonymous author in 1848 in the Leeds Anti-Slavery Tract series. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- A Word from a Petitioner to Congress
- An 1837 broadsheet poem by John Pierpont, published during US congressional debates over antislavery petitions. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
