Whitman, Emerson, and "The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss"

Len Gougeon

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1108

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Whitman, Emerson, and "The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss"

Abstract

Contrasts Whitman's and Emerson's attitudes towards abolition and details the attitudes toward African-Americans that Whitman encountered in Boston; concludes by presenting a "scurrilous satirical work called 'Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss.'"

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How to Cite: Gougeon, L. (1985) “Whitman, Emerson, and "The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 3(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1108