Frances E. W. Harper and James Whitfield

The back slave waits for his freedom. He knows he is created in the image of his God but his fairer fellows fail to see it. Phillys Wheatley and George Moses Horton give voice to the agony of the enslaved male and female. This essay presents an analysis of the poems On Being Brought from Africa to America and George Moses Horton: Myself by Wheatley and Horton respectively. The analysis discovers the message of resistance to the oppression of slavery, its effects and the hypocrisy of the “white Christian” found in these poems.

Compared to The Slave Auction, the poem The Slave Mother has a very different tone. At first the poem starts off sad but then it turns into a voice of rage and resistance. Instead of making the reader feel sorry for the slave mother, Harper strikes the nerve of anger. This poem has a lot of repetition, especially in stanzas five and six.:

Harper can be compared to all of the writers that we have read on the topic of slavery, but Harper gave us the imagery of slavery through her rhyme scheme of poetry. Harper was more descriptive in how she portrayed the reality of slavery than the other writers we discussed because the other writers focused on the history of slavery and were straight forward, and Harper made you feel as if you were actually there to witness what she was playing out in her poems through her usage of figurative language. Harper mainly discussed freedom of slaves and what women had to endure in slavery. Jacobs and Stowe did the same in discussing what women slave went through by using the examples of the factor of losing freedom for their children, and Harper did the same but in a particular way. Also, Douglass discussed the freedom of having an

Marie Joseph Angélique is far more than an average slave from 18th century Montréal. Despite dying at only 29 years of age, Marie made a massive impact on women, slaves, and people of colour. The legacy of her rebellious attitude and will to fight for what she loved is inspiring and she has remained as an influential character in Canada 's history. She is seen as a leader for fighting for equality, rights, and respect for not only slaves living in the country, but for women of colour as well.

Frances Harper is a respected American figure who wrote works regarding abolition and educational equality. As the child of two free black parents, she had a passionate view on racial equality. After seeing her help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and publish a myriad of anti-slavery newspapers, people began to deem her as the mother of African American journalism. Her poem The Slave Mother depicts the relationship between an enslaved mother and her child. The mother’s servitude restricts the encounters that she is able to have with her son. This

Frances Harper was an African American poet who was active in the movement to abolish slavery. Her poem “The Slave Mother” shows examples of imagery and emotions on how they felt during the slavery era. I feel that this poem was a great piece of work to connect and give us an idea of what was happening during Frances Harper era.

Frances E. W. Harper’s 1854 poem “The Slave Mother” portrays what a slave mother has to go through. During slavery, slaves were not viewed as people, but as property. Because of this, the slave mothers had no ways to protect their children from the slave owners. Many families were forced to be separated without being able to have a say in it. Harper’s speaker made it possible for the reader to able to understand what a slave mother has to endure. Harper’s theme and vivid imagery demonstrate that slave mothers feel an immense pain of not being able to fulfill their maternal duties, because of slavery.

The Harlem Renaissance during the 1920’s and 1930’s was a period of time in which many African-Americans were treated unfairly. In order to bring this issue to attention, writers such as Langston Hughes used literature in an attempt to bring equality for all through various forms including art, poetry, music, theater, and politics. Specifically, Langston Hughes was often recognized as “the poet laureate of Harlem.” “He also worked as a journalist, dramatist, and children's author. His poems, which tell of the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America,” have helped to inspire others to act for change and increased racial consciousness and pride (Howard University, 1).

Both Frances Harper’s “The Slave Mother” and William Wells Brown’s Narrative perpetrate the abolitionist movement; however, I find that Harper’s interpretation of Eliza’s experiences is more emotional and displays the desperation that slavery caused, especially for mothers. Harper’s use of pathos grasps reader’s hearts and can make them feel as if their own child is being taken away.

       This essay examines Cora from The Last of the Mohicans, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Ann Jacobs.     The American Renaissance marks a period of social injustice and the fight of the minority to bring about social change. Women and African-Americans (who were freed or escaped from slavery) begin to gain a voice through literacy, and use that voice to start the movement to abolish slavery and gain women rights. The development of literacy makes it impossible to ignore women and African-Americans because their writing provides a permanent record of the horrors of slavery and injustice of oppressing the minority groups. Furthermore, the gain in literacy by these groups makes

She earned her reputation as the mother of African American journalism. She married Fenton Harper in 1860. Her husband had three children of his own, and they had a daughter together. She participated in both African Methodist Episcopalian

This article seeks to analyze two works of black poetry, On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley and I, too, Sing America by Langston Hughes. Nunes & Vieira (2008) aim to show that society's perspective of black people has not changed over the years even though the two poets had 150 years a gap. In particular, through two selected poems, they establish that though the tones might have changed, the themes still remained the same. Simultaneously, it gives details about their lives, the structure of society at the time they lived in, and the influence it had over their gifted talents.

Only a half of century after the abolition of slavery, the African Americans began the movement of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920‘s. Suppressed by whites, segregation, second-class citizen ship and a poor education Langston Hughes became one of the most inspirational poets of his time. Langston Hughes let the world know of his existence through his poetry. Ignited with passion, pride and knowledge of the journey through slavery and there after, Hughes used his poetry to paint the world through the eyes, ears and voice of an African American. His magnificent use of similes, metaphors, symbolism and imagery intensify just that. In Hughes poems “Harlem - A Dream Deferred” and “ I, Too” his use of these literary devices brings his poetry to life.

Poets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were pinnacle authors during the Harlem Renaissance era. They unshielded topics and experiences as African-American’s in a white, racist society, unveiling their hungry desire and demand for change and equality. The poets do this through provoking poems such as “I, Too” by Hughes and “Incident” by Cullen. Both explore the common theme of racism while also giving insight to the reader their own experiences of racism and the different effect it had on the narrators.

During the slavery period a number of African slaves wrote stories, and poems about their daily hardships that they had to withhold by being a slave and everything else that happen throughout their life’s. Not many Black writers had the resources or support from their owners to publish what they wrote or anyone to care about what they wrote, lucky slaves did reach success when they published their work. Knowing where they came from or where they grew up from is important, the type of work that each individual accomplished when they published their work to the public. The massive impact that Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln had in the black community and how they helped change the way they were being treated completely.