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Slavery. By Hannah More. If Heaven has into being deigned to call. Thy light, O Liberty! to shine on all; Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy ray. To earth distribute only partial day? Since no resisting cause from spirit flows. Thy universal presence to oppose; No obstacles by Nature’s hand impressed, Thy subtle and ethereal beams arrest;
8 de jul. de 2020 · Samuel Wright, ‘Address to Slavery’. Of course, as Wheatley’s poem above shows, there is a long history of African-American poets writing about slavery. The poem was written in 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War, and sees an abolitionist expressing sympathy for the slave’s plight: Slavery, O Slavery! I cannot conceive
Summary. ‘Slavery’ by Hannah More is a campaign poem that argues for the abolition of the slave trade. It was used to launch William Wilberforce’s campaign back in the eighteenth century when the slave trade in Britain peaked. ‘ Slavery’ begins with More introducing the concepts of freedom and liberty.
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About this text. Title (in Source Edition): SLAVERY, A POEM. Author: Hannah More. Themes: politics; virtue; vice [add] Genres: essay [add] Text view / Document view. Source edition. More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Slavery, a poem. By Hannah More. London: printed for T. Cadell, 1788, pp. []-20. [4],20p. ; 4⁰.
Moving Poems about Slavery. 1 Poems On The Slave Trade – Sonnet V by Robert Southey. 2 The Little Black Boy by William Blake. 3 Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade by Anna Letitia Barbauld. 4 Slavery by Hannah More. 5 The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant.
Ev'n you, of ruffian heart, and ruthless hand, Love your own offspring, love your native land. Ah! leave them holy Freedom's cheering smile, Line 115 The heav'n-taught fondness for the parent soil; Revere affections mingled with our frame, In every nature, every clime the same; In all, these feelings equal sway maintain; In all the love of HOME and FREEDOM reign: Line 120 And Tempe's vale, and ...
Biography. Hannah More’s poem was written in support of William Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery. A passionate, poetic explanation of the anti-abolitionists’ argument, this extract is part of a 294 line poem.
