The slave from Senegal who became notable for his published poetry is Léopold Sédar Senghor. Born in 1906 in Senegal, he was enslaved as a child but later went on to study in France, where he became a prominent poet and politician. Senghor's works often celebrated African culture and identity, and he played a key role in the Négritude literary movement. He eventually became the first president of Senegal after the country gained independence.
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Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became a prominent abolitionist, writer, and speaker in the 19th century. He published several autobiographies detailing his experiences as a slave and his journey to freedom.
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he got them from different places but mainly the west side of Africa. (Angola, Nambia, Senegal and guinea).
Phillis Wheatley was a black female slave. It was unusual for a slave to be educated. Many doubted that she wrote the poem. One of her first published books had the testament of 17 men claiming that she did indeed write the poems.
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Poet Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts, on a slave ship in 1761 and was purchased by John Wheatley as a personal servant to his wife. The Wheatleys educated Phillis and she soon mastered Latin and Greek, going on to write highly acclaimed poetry
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Both poems "The Hunters of Men" and "The Slave Ships" were written by abolitionist Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
Goree Island in Senegal was a departure point for slaves during the slave trade. This island housed one of the largest slave-trading centers on the west coast of Africa.
The most famous anti-slavery poem set in the Great Dismal Swamp was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem is titled "The Slave in the Dismal Swamp" and was published in 1842 as part of his collection of poems called "Poems on Slavery."