Introduction: Present Valor
Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
Epilogue: W.E.B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry.