Twasinta's Seminoles; or, Rape of Florida (edition 1884)

by Albery Allson Whitman

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The most talented and the most significant of all the African-American poets between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar was Albery Whitman. The Rape of Florida is a long poem telling the tragic love story of a Mickasukie chief, and the young daughter of a Spanish nobleman. But more than just a love story, it is a powerful, forthright call for self-determination and freedom by a Black poet.… (more)

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Title:	Twasinta's Seminoles; or, Rape of Florida
Authors:	Albery Allson Whitman
Info:	St. Louis, Nixon-Jones print. co., 1885, c1884.
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The Rape of Florida by Albery Allson Whitman

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The Rape of Florida

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Twasinta's Seminoles : Or, Rape of Florida

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Twasinta's Seminoles

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1885 (revised edition)

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Atlassa (young Seminole warrior)

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The poet hath a realm within, and throne,
/ And in his own soul singeth his lament.

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The most talented and the most significant of all the African-American poets between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar was Albery Whitman. The Rape of Florida is a long poem telling the tragic love story of a Mickasukie chief, and the young daughter of a Spanish nobleman. But more than just a love story, it is a powerful, forthright call for self-determination and freedom by a Black poet.

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