Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

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.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Poem Of The Black Person