Appendix C: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism and Responses to EBB's Anti-Slavery Poems," p.331 (EBB)

3. Maria Lowell, “The Slave-mother,” The Liberty Bell (1846): 250-52

            The woman that this article is written about is expecting a child. The author writes in hope that the woman never experiences her mother’s happiness because she will be giving birth to a slave-child. The child is born with brown velvet hands but the mother cannot look the child in the face. For she knows what lies ahead for the child since what lies ahead for him is the same as the fate that lied before his mother; a slave.

1.   The literacy World on “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” and “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1851)

All the new poems have been written as gratitude towards our country. Having all these poems written about national pride cannot be ignored. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of the poets who speaks on our country. In her poem “The Runaway Slave,” Elizabeth Browning shows her strong opinion against the American Union. Browning expresses how American citizens should not be held responsible for what the American Union does since it is a local institution

2. Charlotte Forten on “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1854)

This article is a journal entry written by Charlotte Forten on anti-slavery and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The Run-away Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” It’s funny how clear it is that this was written in the 1800’s just by the wording of the paragraph. In the journal entry though, Forten writes about how a woman named Mrs. Putnam went to Boston to the Anti-Slavery Convention which Forten really wanted to attend because their was an alleged fugitive who was going to be arrested which is all he could think about. Forten takes strong interest in Browning’s poem because of the way she portrays the poor fugitive and as she explains all the sufferings she has encountered. Forten believes that no one could read the poem by Browning without feeling some sort of sympathy towards the fugitive which I believe to be the point of Browning’s poem. 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Marjorie I. Stone, and Beverly Taylor. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems. Peterborough, Ont. [u.a.: Broadview Editions, 2009. Print.