{"product_id":"lyrical-liberators-1","title":"Lyrical Liberators","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Black Lives Matter and \u003ci\u003eHamilton,\u003c\/i\u003e there were abolitionist poets, who put pen to paper during an era when speaking out against slavery could mean risking your life. Indeed, William Lloyd Garrison was dragged through the streets by a Boston mob before a planned lecture, and publisher Elijah P. Lovejoy was fatally shot while defending his press from rioters. Since poetry formed a part of the cultural, political, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e emotional lives of readers, it held remarkable persuasive power. Yet antislavery poems have been less studied than the activist editorials and novels of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover these poems from the periodicals—Garrison’s \u003ci\u003eLiberator,\u003c\/i\u003e Frederick Douglass’s \u003ci\u003eNorth Star,\u003c\/i\u003e and six others—in which they originally appeared. The poems are arranged by theme over thirteen chapters, a number that represents the amendment that finally abolished slavery in 1865. The book collects and annotates works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere is no other book like this. Sweeping in scope and passionate in its execution, Lyrical Liberators is indispensable for scholars and teachers of American literature and history, and stands as a testimony to the power of a free press in the face of injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Monica Pelaez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614820032892,"sku":"9780821422793","price":66.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780821422793_1ecaa609-f22d-429c-b82b-aabcc406c071.jpg?v=1727080028","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/lyrical-liberators-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}