...This chapter explores attitudes to music and its performance of leading figures of the American abolition movement, such as Frederick Douglass, and the attempts of Walt Whitman and others to re-imagine the nation through poetry and song in the era of the American Civil War. It focuses...

... Reporter abolition movement transatlanticism slavery paratext Anti-Slavery Society In 1831, the momentum of nearly a decade of activism against colonial chattel slavery would soon bring about monumental legislative action. The tide of public opinion had turned. As the premiere outlet of the Anti...