Walt Whitman and Herman Melville’s revolutionary visions of egalitarian societies shaped how Abolitionists thought about America’s potential.
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Whitman, Melville & Abolitionism
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Lit’s Contribution to the Civil War
If the Civil War was brought on by a combination of pity and politics, literature helped build the case for pity.
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The Civil War Was Fueled by Poetry
Scholar Faith Barrett shows how the War between the States was a “poetry fueled war.”
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