Abolitionist Poems - Poems about Abolitionist

US Treasury and The Faces On US Currency

...There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has...

The Over-Soul

...
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. 
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable 
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every...

Abolition Day

...It's the most significant day in Black American history
December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery
It was 157 years ago
When they finally let God's people go
 
In the year 1619 was when...

This Kind of Stuff We Just Can'T Excuse

...I loosen my belt and remove my shoes
   So, dear, what's going on in the news
They blocked the streets; tore down statues
   No surprise there; of what were they accused

The protestors, nothing...

The Bow That Bridges Heaven

...He wrangled with his world, found a way to cross the seas
on merchant boats brimful of slaves, bound for British shores.
Innumerable are the things that we shall never know;
amazing, those things ...

History

...Black History
As this month comes to an end 
I want to begin 
First of all I want to thank so many
I will name a few although there's plenty
Martin Luther King
Had a dream
Yes he did 
That we...

Sojourner Truth

...Sojourner
Abolitionist. Slave. Women's Rights Activist. Mother.   
Daughter of James and Elizabeth Baumfree. Wife of "Thomas", a slave
Lover of her five children, freedom, humanity, public speakin...

Black History Month, 2019

...Born a slave in 1818 and escaped from slavery at the age of 20, Fredrick                                                          Douglas became a noted writer, minister of the Gospel, and an aboliti...

The White Devil's Pride

...Bearing a European polymorphism, I should be branded by shame.

I am the White Devil as they claim.

The Ciakara, a bipedal reptilian that fades in and out of gamma rays.

The Ivory Dragon with...

Freeman Cave

...I cherish my freedom
Hard earned though it was
Through the abolitionist railway
And those who supported the cause

An African slave,
though free upon birth
I was sold as a slave
And was now b...

Olaudah Equiano

...OLAUDAH EQUIANO

OLAUDAH EQUIANO
Writer abolitionist
From Igbo region
Purchased his own freedom
In 1766, prominent in British movement


2/11/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr....

John Brown

...JOHN BROWN


John Brown
Abolitionist found
Against slavery
Non-prejudicial nor in bigotry

1/9/18
By James Edward Lee Sr....

Hiring a Linguist

...Hiring A Linguist
Point Trump tried to make we had missed,
Learned more after having hired a linguist,
To find out,
What about;
Trump apparently had been an abolitionist.

Jim Horn...

The San Antonio Night Crossing

...“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, 
        added to the number in the ship which was so crowded 
        that each had scarcely room to turn himself,  almost 
         s...

The First Abolitionist

...How shocked the first man must have felt
Who saw the souls behind the eyes of slaves,
As they silently marched down crowded streets,
Making their way to market to be sold.

He must have thought ...

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