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 jou...