Presents a collection of poems written to honor the life of Fortune, a slave in eighteenth-century Connecticut whose body was donated to science upon his death.

Product Description: A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West. By focusing on the humanity and struggles of York, Clark's slave, When Winter Come challenges conventional views of the journey's heroes and exposes the deeds, both great and ghastly, of the men behind the myth...read more

Product Description: A blend of history and art, Buffalo Dance is a collection of persona poems that tell the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's slave, York. These poems form a narrative of York's saga - a journey from slavery to freedom.

Product Description: This poem reflects some of the minute details of the slavery period: the voyage, the occasional suicides of the captives, the escape attempts, and the rewards advertised by the slaveholders. Past, present and future converge, with the slave ship as symbol. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)