The Works of James M. Whitfield

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822–71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States. Whitfield’s works, including poems from his celebrated America and Other Poems (1853), were printed in influential journals and newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass’s The North Star . A champion of the black emigrati