Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete / Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

A collection of poems and songs that blends ardent anti-slavery advocacy with calls for labor and social reform. It assembles lyrical narratives that depict the hardships and resistance of enslaved people, polemical pieces urging moral and political action, hymns and public tributes, and celebratory verses on emancipation and wartime sacrifice. Alongside denunciations of slaveholding and institutional complicity, it offers rural and labor-focused poems honoring work, solidarity, and reform movements. The voice shifts among elegiac description, moral exhortation, and patriotic fervor, employing vivid imagery, religious language, and rhetorical appeal to conscience to press readers toward justice and humane social change.