Anti-Slavery Rhetoric in English Poetry from 1780 to 1865

The anti-slavery poetry rhetoric has highlighted slavery and the slave trade as ignoble bondage and inhuman treatment of black people in New World and Europe namely torturing and selling them in public. Furthermore; it is worthwhile to acknowledge the neglected role of poetry in drawing society’s attention to the status of black African slaves. Consequently the core of this book is an analysis of poems composed by William Cowper Hannah More William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Phyllis Wheatley Laurence Dunbar Claude McKay Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.