Poem of the Black Person | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Poem of the Black Person
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00267
Repository ID: MS q 29
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: 1860 or before
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript with ideas for a poem expressing the "sentiment" of a "sweeping . . . protection of the blacks." It seems that no such poem ever emerged.