James greenleaf whittier biography of michael jordan
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Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
When Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, visited the White House in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln purportedly welcomed her by saying, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!” But Stowe was not alone. As the Baylor University Libraries observe the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War by mounting exhibits under the overarching theme “with charity for all,” taken from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, the Armstrong Browning Library’s exhibit Imagining Charity for All highlights works by some of the men and women who, like Stowe, used their literary talent to promote freedom and equality. The items on display from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library represent a small, but powerful, portion of the large body of anti-slavery writings produced prior to and during the Civil War that furthered the cause of ending slavery.
Im • • CONTENTS A LAMENT TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES B. STORRS, LINES ON THE DEATH OF S. OLIVER TORREY, TO ———, LEGGETT'S MONUMENT. TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE. LUCY HOOPER. FOLLE Anti-Slavery Poems
To William Lloyd Garrison.
champion of those who groan beneath
Oppression's iron hand:
In view of penury, hate, and death,
inom see thee fearless stand.
Still bearing up thy upphöjd brow,
In the steadfast strength of truth,
In manhood sealing well the vow
And promise of thy youth.
Go on, for thou hast chosen well;
On in the strength of God!
Long as one human heart shall swell
Beneath the tyrant's rod.
Speak in a slumbering nation's ear,
As thou hast ever spoken,
Until the dead in sin shall hear,
The fetter's link be broken!
I love thee with a brother's love,
I feel my pulses thrill,
To mark thy spirit soar above
The cloud of human ill. [10]
My heart hath leaped to answer thine,
And echo back thy words,
As leaps the warrior's at the shine
And flash of kindred swords!
They tell me thou art rash and vain,
A searcher after fame;
That thou art striving but to gain
A long-enduring name;
That thou has THE WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, Volume IV. (of VII)
PERSONAL POEMS
By John Greenleaf Whittier