The north star : the poetry of freedom / by her friends.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, editor.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--Poetry.

Slavery.

Society of Friends.

American poetry.

United States.

American poetry--Friend authors.

Society of Friends--Poetry.

American poetry--Quaker authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

117 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Merrihew and Thompson, 1840.

Contents:

-To the morning star, by John Quincy Adams. -The sunny south, by Elizur Wright. -The social feelings, by J. Blanchard. -Lines, by Mary S. Nelson. -A true patriot, by James t. Fields. -Death on the pale horse, by James Kennard. -The prayer of a lonely heart, by Frances Ann Butler. -Lines, by Lucy Hooper. -The dying Revolutionary soldier, by Hannah F. Gould. -A voice from the Nile, by Eliza Earle. -To a friend, by E.M. Chandler. -"For one is your master, even Christ," by Louisa Simes. -The slaveholder's address to the north star. -My country, by William J. Allinson. -The dweller on the mountains, by James T. Fields. -To a friend at the south, by Elizabeth H. Whittier. -The exiles

a tale of New England. -To the rainbow, by B.S. Jones. -John Summerfield, by E.N. Chandler. -"The earth is the Lord's," by William H. Burleigh. -Wallenstein. -Egypt, (a fragment of an unpublished Poem). -The dying slave, (German). -Stanzas, to the Abolitionists of America, by William H. Burleigh. -Granada. -The world's convention, by J.G. Whittier. -Sonnet to the north star.

Notes:

"Edited anonymously by Whittier, who contributed the following: 'Note,' dated Dec., 1839, pp. [v]-vi. 'The Exiles ...,' pp. [62]-73. 'The World's Convention ...,' pp. [108]-117."--Cf. BAL.

"According to Currier, pp. 42-43, this was prepared for the Philadelphia anti-slavery fair, which opened Dec. 23, 1839."--Cf. BAL.

Includes poetry by such Quakers as E.H. Whittier, and W. J. Allinson, as well as J.G. Whittier.

Signed binding: Gaskill, Phila.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: V. Wood.

Cited in:

BAL, 21716

OCLC:

1949848