Elizabeth Barrett Browning: social and political issues
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point In 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published a new edition of Poems, which included some additional poems she had written. One of these is her startling attack on American slavery, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point, which she placed next to The Cry of the Children. This poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by a black female slave


































