The original version of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings anti-slavery poem, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point, first appeared in The Liberty Bell (an annual abolitionist gift book) in 1848 as Barrett Brownings contribution to a fund-raising effort, promoting the abolitionist cause. The poem was revised for her Poems (1850). Analyze Barrett Brownings dramatic monologue as an abolitionist poem. Consider the poets use of poetic and literary devices such as allusion, diction, setting, repetition, symbolism, simile, scripture, religion, curse, voice, etc. Explain how the poet employs such devices to make her case.
