Albery Allson Whitman Quotes

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Full blue-eyed Summer, stately coming on,
With shouting harvests stood the hills upon;
The breath of wasting juices did inhale,
With bloomy cotton whitened in the vale,
Spread out the ripened cane along the steep
And waving rice fields in the swamp did reap.

Albery Allson Whitman

Oh! sing it in the light of freedom's morn,
Tho' tyrant wars have made the earth a grave;
The good, the great, and true, are, if so born,
And so with slaves, chains do not make the slave!

Albery Allson Whitman

Albery Allson Whitman

Albery Allson Whitman

Born: 1851

Died: 1901 (aged 50)

Bio: Albery Allson Whitman was an African American poet, minister and orator. Born into slavery, Whitman created a successful career for himself as a writer, and during his lifetime was acclaimed as the Poet Laureate of the Negro Race.

Known for:

Not a man, and yet a man (1877)
An idyl of the South (1901)
Twasinta's Seminoles
Twasinta's Seminoles: Or, Rape of Florida (1885)

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