The Black Romantic Revolution – Audiobook Online

The Black Romantic Revolution – Audiobook Online By: Matt Sandler

The poem prophesied about slavery and its abolition.

During the bitter war over slavery in the United States, Black writers – slaves and freemen – allied themselves with the abolitionist cause and used their art to advocate for emancipation and envision End slavery as a possible world history moment.

These Black writers borrowed from the Romantic tradition of Europe – lyric poetry, prophetic images – to write, speak, and sing their hopes for the meaning of freedom. At the same time, they expressed concern about the expansion of global capital and the imperial power of the United States as a result of slavery. They also focus on the ramifications of the sexual violence of slavery. Authors such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George Moses Horton, Albery Allson Whitman, and Joshua McCarter Simpson considered the Civil War a revolutionary upheaval on par with Europe’s stormy Revolutionary Age. The Black Romantic Revolution proposes that the cultural innovations of the Black Romantics shaped Negro radical culture to this day, from blues and hip-hop to populism. Blacks and Black Feminism. Expressions of love and anger, grief and determination, dreams and nightmares, still echo in our present.

This is an excellent and well-written account of how 19th-century Black poets created a new means of protest. Totally recommend. very engaging but very academic, I wish it didn’t tire me out reading so much but I’m glad I took my time.

A wonderful window into the minds of black people after enslavement. I feel like I’ve not only been academically scrutinized about Black creativity during a pivotal moment in history, but I’ve also had a window into the mind of the author of this book and how our ancestors influenced us today.

 

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