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In September 2008 the Project inaugurated a new Legacies collection to explore the continuing influence of abolitionist ideas and culture in US society from the Civil War to the early twentieth century.  The Legacies collection, which features original texts, historical introductions, and video, is co-edited by Holly Kent, Joe Lockard, and Zoe Trodd.
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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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