The Slave In The Dismal Swamp


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This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow wrote poetry like John Singer Sargent painted portraits, with "economy of stroke", and this poem shows Longfellow's familiarity with and sympathy for the slavery issues of his day, and the ghastly contrast between nature's beauty and man-made hell. A contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), both used their literary art to raise consciousness of this intolerable practice. (Michele Fry)

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The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by ALP 1:45 Read by Algy Pug
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by BK 2:19 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by DL 1:44 Read by David Lawrence
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The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by FH 1:37 Read by Foon
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GG 2:16 Read by Greg Giordano
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GRS 2:00 Read by Graham Scott
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by IB 1:39 Read by Isaiah Barker
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by KJH 1:35 Read by KHand
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by LCW 1:37 Read by Larry Wilson
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by MTF 1:42 Read by Michele Fry
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The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by TP 1:57 Read by Tomas Peter