Bay of Seven Islands, and other poems Part 7 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Her uncle, John Greenleaf Whittier, as a famous poet, may have helped to fill the album with the autographs of his famous friends and correspondents. There are a few letters that are written to John Greenleaf Whittier included in the album. There are several types of autographs found in the book. Some of the autographs are attached to a letter, or cut out of one. But what I found most interesting were the names that came with a quote.
When a signer added a quote it was sometimes from their own work. The autograph from Nora Perry, an American writer, came with a quote from her own poem. But most often a famous quote came from another source, such as the Bible, and usually contained a moral message. Very rarely, the quote comes in the form of a unique poem. One of my favorite quotes in the album was a unique poem written just for Elizabeth.
This poem was written by the American author and poet Lucy Larcom For the name thou bearest Tender love thou sharest. Hold it sacred unto death The dear name — Elizabeth. Elizabeth probably did hold her name as something very sacred to her, as she was named after a beloved and much admired aunt.
This admiration can be seen in a letter that her father, M.
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Whittier, who was the younger brother of John Greenleaf Whittier, wrote to her on December 4, As far as your nature will allow imitate the beautiful life of the dear Aunt whose name you bear. Whittier to Elizabeth Whittier Pickard. Some of the most famous autographs in the album are the type that are simply signatures. Examples include Ulysses S. On returning to England this summer we found a book of manly and beautiful verse, and our names I speak for my wife in this letter written, with a kind and gratifying word of sympathy from yourself, in the first page.
We are just leaving England again, but you must take our hasty thanks as if they had been more worthily expressed: The autograph letters are some of my favorite because, as well as the autograph, they also included snippets of the everyday life of the person. John writes to his great nephew, telling him that he will collect stamps so that Greenleaf can put them in his stamp album.
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He also reminds Greenleaf to do well in school. I love letters like this that seem so familiar even to modern eyes. I send a few stamps for thy album, and will try to save more for thee, I hope thee go to school and learn well. It was so fun to be able to research all the people inside of the book and to learn their stories. The items on display from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library represent a small, but powerful, portion of the large body of anti-slavery writings produced prior to and during the Civil War that furthered the cause of ending slavery.
Items on display can also be viewed below. The anti-slavery novel sold , copies in the United States and 1. This London edition was published the same year in one volume, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Clarke, Beeton, and Co. Composed and Most Respectfully Dedicated to Mrs. Music by Manual Emilio. Published by John P. The poem, which first appeared in the anti-slavery newspaper The Independent , was set to music by Manuel Emilio.
George Routledge and Sons, Phillips, Sampson and Company, Stowe wrote her second anti-slavery novel Dred in response to the violence that broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of , which allowed white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. The novel was popular, selling over , copies in its first month of publication. Issued monthly, and for sale at the book stores, September, In this pamphlet published in , he called for the immediate and unconditional emancipation of slaves.
With 5, copies printed and distributed for free by abolitionist Arthur Tappan, this appeal publicly aligned Whittier with the anti-slavery cause and made him a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, Whittier signed the Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention in , an action he considered more important than any of his literary achievements.
Published by Isaac Knapp, The volume begins with a tribute to William Lloyd Garrison , a prominent abolitionist, editor of The Liberator , and a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Published by Joseph Healy; Boston: The volume contains 24 anti-slavery poems and 26 poems on miscellaneous subjects. Whittier wrote The Branded Hand in response to an event in in which a tradesman named Jonathan Walker tried to help seven slaves escape by boat from Florida.
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Sixth and Complete Edition. Published by Thomas S. Waite, Pierce and Co. Since the last edition was issued, several years have passed, and a new and vigorous host has entered the service of Freedom. With all classes, Whittier has been a favorite Poet; and the publication of his writings, especially those devoted to that cause, seems to be generally desired. These are all included, it is believed, in the present collection. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Sampson, Low, Son and Company, This poem finds its justification in the readiness with which, even in the North, clergymen urged the prompt execution of the Fugitive Slave Law as a Christian duty, and defended the system of slavery as a Bible institution.
Passed by the United States Congress on 18 September , the Fugitive Slave Law required that all escaped slaves be returned to their masters upon capture. Law enforcement officers and citizens in the free states were expected to comply with this law. He also reflects on the outcome of the Second Battle of Murfreesboro, which had been fought from 31 December to 2 January , resulting in Confederate withdrawal from Middle Tennessee. Thee remember our young colored friend Charlotte Forten.
How well, on the whole, the poor contrabands behave! The gloom of the war is broken by the lurid light of the Murfeesboro battle. One cannot help admiring the daring of Rosecrans—snatching by his own personal prowess victory from the very jaws of defeat.
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I shudder to think of the lives that must be sacrificed to open the Mississippi at Vicksburg. It is hard to be a Quaker at these times! Yet never was I more convinced of the truth of our principles, than now. Written in dialect, the poem became a popular song during the Civil War. Oh, nebber you fear, if nebber you hear De driver blow his horn!
Lydia Huntley Sigourney was a popular American poet in the early and mid-nineteenth century, who supported rights for women and the abolition of slavery, among many other reform causes. Clark in his anti-slavery songbook The Liberty Minstrel. The poem concludes on page What hand with shameful stain Hath marred its heavenly blue? The yoke, the fasces, and the chain, Say, are these emblems true? O God of power! Eliza Lee Cabot Follen. Published by John Owen, He expressed his public support of abolitionism in this volume of poems, published in Considered the most overtly political of his writings, Longfellow composed seven of the eight poems in this small volume on his return voyage to the United States after visiting with and being inspired by radical poet Ferdinand Freiligrath in Germany and Charles Dickens in England.
There is a poor, blind Samson in this land, Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds of steel, Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this Commonweal, Till the vast Temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. Alden, Publishing Agent, Boston, []. Ticknor and Fields, American Notes for General Circulation [2 vols. Chapman and Hall, Retrospect of Western Travel [2 vols. Published by Saunders and Otley; New York: English writer and journalist Harriet Martineau traveled extensively throughout the United States from to and recorded her observations in two books, Society in America and Retrospect of Western Travel In both books, Martineau expressed her opposition to slavery which she witnessed firsthand during her travels, finding the practice inconsistent with the idea of American democracy.
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