The Negro's Complaint: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Negro's Complaint, credited to William Cowper, 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 volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Negro's Complaint by William Cowper.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 9, 2020. Read in English by Adrian Stephens; Bruce Kachuk; Newgatenovelist; fshort; Graham Scott; Larry Wilson; Mickey Lee Rich and VelmaCariss. Cowper, an English poet, wrote a poem called "The Negro's Complaint" (1788) which rapidly became very famous, and was often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 20th century civil rights movement. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Negro's Complaint
• Author credits: William Cowper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 24:38

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy
• slavery
• abolition

Track guide

1. 01 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by APS — 2:45
2. 02 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by BK — 3:38
3. 03 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by EL — 3:21
4. 04 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by FS — 3:16
5. 05 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by GRS — 3:18
6. 06 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by LCW — 2:50
7. 07 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by MIR — 2:38
8. 08 - The Negro's Complaint - Read by VC — 2:52

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