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Frederick Douglass in Chinese

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African American literature of slavery has a translation history dating from at least the 1840s.  One of the Project's collections addresses this history, with special attention to translations of Frederick Douglass published from the 19th-century to the present day.  The collection includes podcast readings of selected chapters from Douglass' 1845 narrative in French, Hebrew, Spanish, and most recently a Chinese reading by Prof. John Zou.  Read more...
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Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry (Flash Video)

by Joe Lockard — last modified 2008-08-01 09:16

Antislavery poetry in the antebellum United States presents a fascinating and largely unexplored intersection between emergent concepts of civil liberties, the impetus of political events, and their interpretation through poetic imagination. This paper discusses the growth of antislavery poetry in popular journals during the 1830s, focusing especially on the martyr poetry published after the murder of abolitionist journalist Elijah Lovejoy in 1837.

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