The poetry of slavery: an Anglo-American anthology, 1764-1865

The book collects together the most important workds of poetry generated by English and North American slavery from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American poets with a host of lesser know authors. The book contans a fifty two page contextualising introductin setting out the historical and cultural context for the poems, and a detailed chronology of major events in England France and America. Each poem has a lengthy individual cricitcal/biographical introduction and detailed annotation.