Abolition Poetry, National Identity, and Religion: The Case of Peter Newby's "The Wrongs of Almoona."

This essay offers information about "The Wrongs of Almoona," a historical narrative poem published in 1655 in Jamaica by Peter Newby. This narrative poem features the nature of abolitionist culture and its religious identity as a fractious element of an abolition movement that united Anglicans, nonc...

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Published in:	Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 25 - 44
Main Author:	Tomko, Michael
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2007
Subjects:	Wrongs of Almoona, The (Poem) Newby, Peter Religion & poetry Narrative poetry Antislavery movements National character Jamaica
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