Samuel Wright Poems

Samuel Wright is known for his poem ‘Address to Slavery’ published in February 1860. It is addressed to the personified version of slavery. It contains a request to emancipate enslaved people. 

Address to Slavery

by Samuel Wright

‘Address to Slavery’ by Samuel Wright was published in The Weekly Anglo-African on 18th February 1860. It is an impassioned address to the personified “slavery”.

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