The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point

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The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point is a dramatic anti-slavery poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that gives voice to an enslaved woman’s suffering, resistance, and moral outrage.

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instanceOf anti-slavery literature ⓘ
dramatic monologue ⓘ
poem ⓘ
addressesIssue American slavery ⓘ
family separation under slavery ⓘ
racism ⓘ
sexual violence under slavery ⓘ
author Elizabeth Barrett Browning ⓘ
commissionedBy American abolitionists ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
exploresTheme dehumanization under slavery ⓘ
intersection of race and gender ⓘ
moral responsibility of white audiences ⓘ
featuresCharacter enslaved mother ⓘ
featuresMotif Christian imagery ⓘ
flight from slavery ⓘ
infanticide as resistance ⓘ
firstPublishedIn The Liberty Bell ⓘ
linked to: Liberty Bell
firstPublisher Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair ⓘ
genre abolitionist literature ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
hasInfluenced later feminist readings of slavery ⓘ
scholarship on Victorian abolitionist poetry ⓘ
influencedBy transatlantic abolitionist movement ⓘ
intendedAudience Victorian reading public ⓘ
anti-slavery activists ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryForm dramatic monologue ⓘ
literaryMovement British abolitionist writing ⓘ
Victorian literature ⓘ
mainTheme moral outrage ⓘ
racial oppression ⓘ
resistance ⓘ
slavery ⓘ
suffering ⓘ
meter irregular ⓘ
narrativePerspective first-person ⓘ
narrator an enslaved Black woman ⓘ
partOf Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s political poetry ⓘ
politicalAlignment abolitionist ⓘ
publicationYear 1848 ⓘ
rhymeScheme irregular ⓘ
setting Pilgrim’s Point ⓘ
United States ⓘ
tone accusatory ⓘ
indignant ⓘ
tragic ⓘ

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