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Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female readership to the abolitionist cause. Browning was the direct descendant of slave owners in Jamaica and a fervent anti-slavery campaigner, and her dramatic monologue presents a searing attack on the hypocrisy of ‘liberty’ as enshrined in the United States constitution. Mark and Seamus look at the origins of the poem and its story, and its place among other abolitionist narratives of the time.
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Matthew Bevis: Foiled by Pleasure
Alethea Hayter: Reader, I married you
John Bayley: A Question of Breathing
Colin Grant: Leave them weeping
Fara Dabhoiwala: My Runaway Slave, Reward Two Guineas
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Manage episode 415057137 series 3476717
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female readership to the abolitionist cause. Browning was the direct descendant of slave owners in Jamaica and a fervent anti-slavery campaigner, and her dramatic monologue presents a searing attack on the hypocrisy of ‘liberty’ as enshrined in the United States constitution. Mark and Seamus look at the origins of the poem and its story, and its place among other abolitionist narratives of the time.
Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full:
Read more in the LRB
Matthew Bevis: Foiled by Pleasure
Alethea Hayter: Reader, I married you
John Bayley: A Question of Breathing
Colin Grant: Leave them weeping
Fara Dabhoiwala: My Runaway Slave, Reward Two Guineas
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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