Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • The Quadroon Girl Poems on Slavery 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Provided by the Maine Historical Society The Slaver in the broad lagoon   Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon,   And for the evening gale. Under the shore his boat was tied,   And all her listless crew Watched…

  • A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns sour. The birth of a…