“A significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery.”

SCSU Professor Monica Pelaez has authored a new anthology entitled Lyrical Liberators: The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865. Published by Ohio University Press, this book explores abolitionist poetry and “stands as a testimony to the power of a free press in the face of injustice.” From the publisher:

In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover these poems from the periodicals—Garrison’s Liberator, Frederick Douglass’s North Star, and six others—in which they originally appeared. The poems are arranged by theme over thirteen chapters, a number that represents the amendment that finally abolished slavery in 1865. The book collects and annotates works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.

You can read more about the book at Ohio University Press.