The Dying Negro

The Dying Negro: A Poetical Epistle was a 1773 abolitionist poem published in England, by John Bicknell and Thomas Day. It has been called "the first significant piece of verse propaganda directed explicitly against the English slave systems".[1] It was quoted in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano of 1789.[2]

  1. ^ Marcus Wood (2003). The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764–1865. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-19-818709-7.
  2. ^ William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates (15 January 2000). Slave Narratives: Library of America #114. Library of America. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-59853-212-8.