The Slave In The Dismal Swamp
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow wrote poetry like John Singer Sargent painted portraits, with "economy of stroke", and this poem shows Longfellow's familiarity with and sympathy for the slavery issues of his day, and the ghastly contrast between nature's beauty and man-made hell. A contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), both used their literary art to raise consciousness of this intolerable practice. (Michele Fry) (0 hr 23 min)
Chapters
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by ALP | 1:45 | Read by Algy Pug |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by BK | 2:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by DL | 1:44 | Read by David Lawrence |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by EL | 1:59 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by FH | 1:37 | Read by Foon |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GG | 2:16 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GRS | 2:00 | Read by Graham Scott |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by IB | 1:39 | Read by Isaiah Barker |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by KJH | 1:35 | Read by KHand |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by LCW | 1:37 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by MTF | 1:42 | Read by Michele Fry |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by RAJ | 1:41 | Read by RajVO |
| The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by TP | 1:57 | Read by Tomas Peter |