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About this Project
Family Members
Seven Core Siblings
Mary Frances Burleigh: The Only Sister
John Oscar Burleigh: The Oldest, But Least Famed Brother
Charles Calistus Burleigh: An Unkempt but Powerful Force for Abolition
William Henry Burleigh: Earnest and Affable Editor
Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh: Preacher and Teacher
Cyrus Moses Burleigh: Quick-Witted Activist
George Shepard Burleigh: Poet of Reform, Nature, and Sentiment
Parents, Spouses, and Children
The Parents: Rinaldo & Lydia Bradford Burleigh
Gertrude Kimber Burleigh: Quaker Partner to Charles
Celia Burleigh: First Female Unitarian Minister and William's Second Wife
Margaret Jones Burleigh: Friend to Cyrus; Wife to Mary Grew
Ruth Burgess Burleigh: Abolitionist and Poetic Partner to George
Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.: Exquisite Painter
L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye Views
Sydney Richmond Burleigh: Artist of Multiple Skills in Rhode Island
Chapters in Family History
The Canterbury Female Academy, Prudence Crandall, and the Black Women Students
Agency and Activity in the 1830s
Abolitionist Schism and the Burleigh Family
Success, Struggles, and Sorrows: The 1850s
Radical Retirements: 1860-1903
Themes and Concepts
Newspapers Edited by Burleighs
The Life of an Anti-Slavery Agent
African-American Allies and Associates of the Burleigh Siblings
Anti-Racism: Definitions and Examples
Racism within the Burleigh Family
Women's Rights
Queer Subtexts
Understanding the Temperance Cause
Pacifism and Non-Resistance in Theory and Practice
Utopia and Religion
Transcendentalism
Aesthetics, the Arts, and Social Change
Pilgrims
Geography: Range and Mobility
Networks of Friends, Neighbors, Close Associates
Glimpses of Technological Change
Poetry
Title
Poetry
Creator
George Shepard Burleigh
William Henry Burleigh
Description
Photo accompanying this genre is the title to one of William Henry Burleigh's poems, in the First Edition of his Poems from 1841, p. 25.
Language
English
Contributor
James Russell Lowell
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Media
Stanzas to the Abolitionists of America
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Items with "Subject: Poetry"
Original Ode, by William H. Burleigh
Items with "Description: Poetry"
The Domicile Erected by John
Items with "Type: Poetry"
A Birth-Day Speech
Advertisement for William Burleigh's Poems
Benjamin Lundy - Poem by William H. Burleigh
Cloud, The
Excerpt from the poem "The School Boy" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Expostulation
Freedom's Martyrs
Harriet
Hospitality
Poems, 1841 edition
Poetic Plagiarism - "A Psalm of Night"
Poor Old Crow page 2
Poor Old Crow, page 1
Prudence Crandall's copy of Cowper's The Task
The Bondman's Lament
The Descent from the Cross, title page
The Homeless
The Man in the Boy
The Man in the Boy
The Man in the Boy original
The Seeker
To Plainfield, Conn. On Her Two-Hundredth Anniversary
Unshadowed
