The Published Anthology
The Bow in the Cloud consists of 86 poems and prose pieces. Below are the published pieces, listed in the order in which they appeared in the anthology, that have been transcribed and encoded in TEI XML. Each item also includes 'textual paths' to manuscript versions of each piece (listed under 'Contents'), any related correspondence to the submission (such as cover letters), and, in some cases, visual material (such as photographs and artworks).
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- The Bow in the Cloud Christopher Ohge
Contents of this path:
- Title Page, 'The Rainbow', by James Montgomery, and Epigraphs
- Preface, by Mary Anne Rawson
- The Starting-Post; or, Clarkson at Wades-Mill, by Bernard Barton
- Leonard Dober, by James Montgomery
- Oppression, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
- The Slave-Dowry, by Joseph Watson
- Sonnet, by Eliza Conder
- A Negro-Mother's Cradle-Song, by Bernard Barton
- The Slave's Lament, by Allan Cunningham
- Sonnet, by Francis Wrangham
- Latin Imitation, by Francis Wrangham
- West-Indian Slavery, by William Howitt
- The Negro-Mother, by Mary Howitt
- To the Slave, by Richard Winter Hamilton
- Appeal for the Injured African, by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
- Hope, by Dinah Ball
- Sale of a South-African Slave, from Anon. to Richard Miles
- To My Native Country, by James Baldwin Brown
- The Slave-Ship, by Mary Sterndale
- The Negro, by John Bowring
- The Death of the Slave, by James Edmeston
- "A Voice from America's Plains" and "A Cry from the Isles of the West" , by Paul Moon James
- Liberty, by Agnes Bulmer
- Remarks on the Christian Duty of Putting an End to End Slavery, by Joseph John Gurney
- The Martyred Missionary's Grave, by Thomas Rawson Taylor
- To a Negro Infant, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
- The Death of a Female Slave, by William Knibb
- A Christian Negro's Thanks and Prayer, by Bernard Barton
- The Negro Burial Ground, by James Baldwin Brown
- Rest, by Maria Benson
- Freedom Indeed, by J. W. H. Pritchard
- The Woldsman's Prayer, by Edward William Barnard
- Evening in the West Indies, by Elizabeth Jones
- The Black Soldier, by George Pilkington
- The Little African Pleader, by William Knibb
- Granville Sharp, by Dinah Townley
- The English Peasant, by William Howitt
- The Bible and Slavery, by Joseph Gilbert
- The Mother, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
- Who is My Neighbor? by James Riddall Wood
- A Brief Account of a Much-Persecuted Christian Slave, by William Knibb
- "For Who Maketh Thee to Differ?" by Josiah Conder
- Sonnet. The African Mother. A Fact, by Jane E. Roscoe
- A Word for the Slave, by John Holland
- Pierre Sallah, by Dinah Townley
- The Desolate Valley, by Thomas Pringle
- The Creole Maiden's Song to the Marvel of Peru, by Richard Hill
- The Insurrection in Jamaica, Eustace Carey
- The Persecuted Missionary, by William Knibb and Thomas Burchell
- The Lot of the Slave, by Richard Cecil
- The Cup of Gold, by Samuel Carter Hall
- Visions of Slavery, by Mary Howitt
- Repose for the Weary, by J. R.
- The Abbé Grégoire, by John Pye-Smith
- True Liberty, by Matthew Bridges
- The Negro Will Work for Wages
- The Hope of the Slave, by Elizabeth Walker
- "Praise waits for Thee in Zion, Lord!", by James Douglas
- The Birthright of Britons, by Eliza Conder
- The Decision, by Lucy Townsend
- Sonnet On the Present Crisis of Affairs, as Regards the Emancipation of the Negroes, by Chauncey Hare Townshend
- Slavery, by A. H. Smith
- "He Being Dead Yet Speaketh", by Edward Henry Abney
- The Set Time, by John Holland
- Ode on the Abolition of Slavery, by Lord Morpeth
- Compensation for the Slave, by Thomas F. Buxton
- Libertas: Quae Sera Tamen, Respexit, &c. &c., by John Parker
- Funeral Oration, by John Ely
- The Grave of Wilberforce, By Thomas Hill
- The Aged Negro, by J. W. H. Pritchard
- The Abolition of Slavery, by James Townley
- The Triumph of Freedom, by Elizabeth Walker
- A Voice from the Land of Bondage, by Sarah J. Williams
- A Brief Account and Familiar Description of Jamaica..., by Richard Winter Hamilton
- The Forester of the Neutral Ground, by Thomas Pringle
- Futurity, by James Edmeston
- The Negro Poetess, by William Marsh
- Invocation to Liberty, by Elizabeth Walker
- Luke X.25–37, by Maria Stevens
- Song, by Agnes Bulmer
- The True Freedman, by Thomas Best
- They Ask Me for Some Radiant Lay, by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
- The Dying Negress, by Charlotte Elliott
- Heard Ye Those Mild Tones of Gladness? by John Sheppard
- The Negro is Free, by James Montgomery
- The Goal; or, Clarkson in Old Age, by Bernard Barton