Historical Context
This institution deeply divided the country.
What is slavery?
These two answered the call for a national poet.
Who is Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This was Clotel's husband.
Who is Horatio Greene?
This type of literature revealed the true nature of slavery and made readers care.
What is slave narratives?
This event caused American society to stop romanticizing and glorifying war.
This poet wrote about American life even if it was a topic that others found vulgar.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Who is Walt Whitman?
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
These types of writing gave personal responses to historical events.
What are diaries and letters?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He made the call for a national poet.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
She is a character whose tragic story represents slavery in William Well's Brown's novel by the same name.
This owner of Clotel, forced her to cut her hair in order to humiliate her.
Who is Mrs. French?
What are public documents?
This amendment outlawed slavery in the United States of America.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
Who is Emily Dickinson?
He is the Author of Clotel.
Who is William Wells Brown
This is the river in which Clotel was drowned in.
What is the Potomac River?
What is Poetry?
American citizens lost their taste for Romanticism because of this.
What is the harsh reality of war?
This poet writes death as many characters including a kind carriage driver.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
He is a slave that gained his freedom. He is known for this famous quote, "The soul that is within me no man can degrade".
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What is a mechanic?
This genre of writing moved toward realism.
What is later fiction?