Charles Sumner: “Of the poets mentioned in Griswold’s “Poets and Poetry of America,”…”

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Of the poets mentioned in Griswold’s “Poets and Poetry of America,” 122 are of the Free States, and only 16 of the Slave States.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner compares the number of poets from Free and Slave States to highlight the disparity in literary contributions.

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Charles Sumner: “Of the poets mentioned in Griswold’s “Poets and Poetry of America,” 122 are of the Free States, and only 16 of the Slave…”