Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass

abolitionists African Americans anti-slavery appears attitudes beautiful becomes begins bill blacks body Brooklyn called Compromise concern continued convention critics debates democracy Democratic describes discussion earlier early editorials Emerson equal Essays example experience expression final Franklin Evans Free Soil Free Soil party Free Soilers Fugitive Slave fully hand Historic hope human idea issue journalism labor late later Leaves of Grass lines look March masters mind Moreover narrative nature negro North Northern notes NUPM opposition party passage perhaps person poem poet poetic poetry political popular Press published Quoted race racial radical readers represent response Review rhetorical Rubin says seems Senator sexual slavery Song South Southern speaker suffering suggests sympathy territories things thinking throughout tion turn Union University views vision voice Walt Whitman Whit Wilmot woman women writing York