Anti-slavery campaigners, inspired by Non-conformist preachers such as John Wesley, started some of the earliest campaigns against the practice.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

Anti-slavery treaties were signed with over 50 African rulers.

Anti-slavery Northerners denounced the war as a Southern conspiracy to expand slavery ; Calhoun saw a conspiracy of Yankees to destroy the South.

Anti-slavery activists in Bracken County played a major role in the movement known as the Underground Railroad.

Anti-slavery and anti-secession sentiment ran high in East Tennessee in the years leading up to the U. S. Civil War.

My great great grandfather Lindley Coates helped form the Clarkson Anti-slavery Society and was briefly President of the American Anti-Slavery Society before William Lloyd Garrison.

When Phillips joined the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society, he horrified his family, who tried to have him thrown into an insane sanitarium.

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, members of the New England Anti-slavery Society supported immediate abolition and viewed slavery as immoral and non-Christian.

* Anti-slavery: The Reporter and Aborigines Friend, by Alan Whittaker, Anti-Slavery International.

* Anti-slavery Reporter, by Anti-Slavery International.

Anti-slavery treaties were signed with over 50 African rulers.

Anti-slavery settlers in " Bleeding Kansas " in the 1850s were called Free-Soilers, because they fought ( successfully ) to include Kansas in the Union as a free state.

Jesse Sage, associate director of the American Anti-slavery Group, and Jacobs persuaded Bok to move to Boston to work with the AASG.

Anti-slavery men cited it as evidence that the South had lost interest in national debate and now relied on " the bludgeon, the revolver, and the bowie-knife " to display their feelings and silence their opponents.

Lydia joined the Lynn Female Anti-slavery Society when she was sixteen ; in the controversies which divided the abolitionist movement during the 1840s Lydia would support the feminist and moral suasion positions of Nathaniel P. Rogers.

In 1839 William Allen became a founding Committee Member of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade Throughout the World, which is today known as Anti-Slavery International.

Anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers hurried into Kansas in order to influence the outcome of the first election.

" This is known as debt bondage, which also fits official definitions of slavery ," says Anti-slavery International, a lobbying group based in Great Britain.

Written by Himself, Boston: The Anti-slavery office, 1847.

John Sparrow found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe how his poems came into existence:

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

* The Hyperion Cantos take their titles from poems by the English Romantic, John Keats.

Johnson defined it with two poems, one by Jonathan Swift, the other by Sir John Suckling.

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

A volume of poems by John Betjeman, for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring a photograph of a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, middle-aged man.

This is not to say they would be two different poems, since the technique of having separate parts that respond to another is used in the genre of the odal hymn, used in the poetry of other Romantic poets including John Keats or Percy Bysshe Shelley.

In Road to Xanadu ( 1927 ), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were " two of the most remarkable poems in English ".

Perhaps the outstanding example was John Dryden's English version of the poems of Virgil, published in 1697.

A book of nonsense poems, Rhymes Without Reason, was published in 1944 and was described by John Betjeman as " outstanding ".

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

St. John also wrote four treatises on mystical theology, two treatises concerning the two poems above, which set out to explain the true meaning of the poems verse by verse and even word by word.

John Benson published a collected edition of Shakespeare's Poems in 1640 ; the poems were not added to collections of the plays until the 18th century.

He drew on several of his earlier " Bab Ballad " poems ( many of which also have nautical themes ), including " Captain Reece " ( 1868 ) and " General John " ( 1867 ).

In 1920 Blunden published a collection of poems, The Waggoner, and with Alan Porter edited the poems of John Clare ( mostly from Clare's manuscript )

In 1987, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles commissioned the settings of the remaining twenty-nine poems that Schoenberg had neglected, using his original scoring ( Sprechstimme optional ), by sixteen American composers: Milton Babbitt, Leslie Bassett, Susan Morton Blaustein, Paul Cooper, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Donald Harris, Richard Hoffmann, Karl Kohn, William Kraft, Ursula Mamlok, Steve Mosco, Marc Neikrug, Mel Powell, Roger Reynolds, and Leonard Rosenman.

He became friends with John Donne, and translated his poems into Dutch.

John Henry Faulk, speaking of the poems in this book, said on CBS radio, " Eli Siegel makes a man glad he's alive ".

In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer reciting his poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting ; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas to illustrate lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

He was fond of poetry, with his favourite poet being John Keats, although his favourite poems were William Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " and Robert Browning's " A Grammarian's Funeral ".