"The Slave Trade Merchant": draft poem of 24 stanzas
- Date:
- 1838
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.138
- Part of:
- Madden, Richard Robert (1798-1886)
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Madden, active much of his life in the problems of slavery, published this piece, revised and extended, as the prefatory poem (at pp. 9-19) to his Poems by a slave in the island of Cuba, recently liberated (&c.), London: T. Ward, 1840, together with much ancillary material on slavery in Cuba and a translation of the autobiography of the slave, Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854).
Signed and dated 5 December 1838. Produced in Havana.
Publication/Creation
1838
Physical description
2 ll. 33 x 20.5 cm. Unbound.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1930
Biographical note
Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), who became a lyric poet and dramatist of Cuban renown, lived some 40 years a slave.
Finding aids
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).
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Accession number
- 73139