Dec 28, 2009
Besides his extensive poetry, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote numerous antislavery tracts, compiled editions of New England legends, edited various newspapers, and was active in abolitionist politics. Whittier’s Legends of New-England, his earliest collection, was followed by the antislavery arguments in Justice and Expediency: or, Slavery Considered with a View to Its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition (1833), and The Supernaturalism of New England (1847). Whittier’s finest prose work is perhaps Leaves from Margaret...
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