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From Publishers Weekly
This enormous， in some ways groundbreaking， anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity， enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking world， from 1660 (when Britain restored its monarchy) to 1810 (just after Britain banned the Atlantic slave trade). Basker is a professor of English at Columbia and an 18th-century scholar and expert on antislavery movements. Among the 400 poems by more than 250 authors here， he includes whole published works-lyric， expository and narrative-along with excerpts from long poems and verse-dramas. Some excerpts seem forced， touching on Africa， Africans or slavery only in passing. Mostly， however， the poems hit home; though many are stylistically unremarkable (and resemble one another)， almost all have some historical or human interest. Verse from Defoe， Johnson and Wordsworth stands alongside many more poems-from hymns to romances-by relative unknowns. Michael Wigglesworth’s ’Puritan Ode’ proclaims black souls equal to white in the eyes of God; in another poem， a ’transported felon’ describes Virginia servitude. Other highlights include poems in abolitionist mini-genres (such as the several poems entitled ’The Dying African’); verse by the Afro-American astronomer Benjamin Banneker; and a prizewinning antislavery ode (originally in Greek) by a young Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Overall， this big book documents the increasing power of abolitionist sentiment over the century; the rising body of work written by slaves and former slaves; and the repellent backlash of pro-slavery writing-though Basker writes， ’the overwhelming majority’ of the period’s poems ’portray slavery as ugly and evil.’
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Book Description
This landmark volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America， Britain and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment -- the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than 250 poets， both famous and unknown， the book charts the emergence of slavery as part of the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. The book includes: poems by 40 women， ranging from abolitionists Hannah More to Frances Seymour， the Countess of Hertford; works by more than 20 African or African American poets， including familiar names， interesting figures， and newly-recovered black poets， and poetry by such canonical writers as Dryden， Defoe， Pope， Johnson， Blake， Boswell， Burns， Wordsworth and Coleridge. The poems speak eloquently of the themes of slavery -- capture， torture， endurance， rebellion， thwarted romances， and spiritual longing. They also raise questions about the contradictions between cultural attitudes and public policies of the time. Writers such as these， suggests editor James Basker， were not complict in the imperial project or indifferent about slavery， but actually laid the groundwork for the political changes that would follow.
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