Frederick Douglass

As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all...

She composed it largely of biographies of black people: Toussaint L'Ouverture , Frederick Douglass , and (more briefly) Phillis Wheatley . With these went stories about slaves, a few good hymns, and finally a...

Heading south again, she continued to learn about the institution of slavery and read the writings of abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Fanny Kemble . Yet her later account suggests the inadequacy of any...