Poems Concerning the Slave Trade: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade, credited to Robert Southey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Poems Concerning the Slave Trade by Robert Southey. Read in English by Alan Mapstone Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems to try to raise awareness of the brutal reality of the trade in a generally apathetic populace. Lord Grenville, who is addressed in the final poem, was British Prime Minister in 1807 when the slave trade was abolished throughout the British Empire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems Concerning the Slave Trade
• Author credits: Robert Southey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 28:27

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - Sonnets — 7:56
2. 02 - To the Genius of Africa — 3:57
3. 03 - The Sailor, who had served in the slave trade — 7:55
4. 04 - Verses spoken in the Theatre at Oxford, upon the installation of Lord Grenville — 8:39

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