1. New Commited Voices
Having recently escaped the confines of her father's home, in which she states the children were often driven to the "vices of slaves", Barrett Browning is asserting the correlation between slavery and the unprivileged position of women. ... In January 1847, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, at the request of anti-slavery friends in America wrote the overtly political poem The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate