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Whitman was born into slavery at a farm near Munfordville, Kentucky.
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Excerpt from Not a Man, and Yet a Man I was born in the Green River Country, Hart County, Kentucky, May 30th, 1851. I was a slave until the Emancipation. My parents left me and went to the Good Land when 1 was yet a boy. My chances for an education have not been good. In that matter, however, I have done what I could. I have labored with my hands, taught school, and preached a risen, present Savior - not a bad lot after all. I am now an Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the stationed pastor at Springfield, Ohio, and General Financial Agent of Wilberforce University. With this brief account of myself, I pass to notice the Institution in whose interest I have written, and whose permanent endowment I hope to secure. Wilberforce University is situated three and one-half miles North-East of Xenia, Greene County, Ohio; surrounded by beautiful farms, and from the West, looked down upon by a group of heavily wooded hills. It is one of the most desirable College sites in Ohio. The locality is eminently healthy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The cordial reception given the first edition of this poem by the American people, prompts me to change my former address, by adding a word to the public. Youth thinks extravagantly and often speaks more so, but sober experience comes on to correct us. I have found that I need not quarrel and that complaining is unmanly. Going among the people for myself, I have seen that the whites have cheerfully vied with my own race in putting me before the public. Kindness is a law unto herself, and in her dominions all subjects are willing. She opens her hand with benefits, and forgets not the humble in passing. This beautiful truth has been taught me by the many who have heard my singing. The wise, the good, and great have heard me, and said that they heard a poet. And saying so much of me, an obscure young man, it causes me to hope afresh, and feel that life is worth living. I am in active sympathy with the progressive colored man. I have a mind to think that he has a calling among his fellow-men. It maybe noticed here that I use the words, colored man, instead of the word Negro. I do this because my feelings decide in favor of colored man by a rote of eight to seven. I am in active sympathy with America scoming colored man. I have yielded to the firm belief that he has a future. I abhor the doctrine that he is but a cipher in the worlds greatness a captive in the meshes of dominating influences. I abhor it because it is arrogantly asserted on the one hand while it is too often tacitly admitted on the other. Yet I confess that living instances of real merit only will correct the worlds judgment and force its respect. To this end I have laid out ray life. Modest enough to be patient, I am not too tame to assert that I have some hope of ultimately reaching the ears of my countrymen. I am a colored man, and as such, I accept the situation, and enter the lists with poise (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Whitman was born into slavery at a farm near Munfordville, Kentucky.
After years as a manual laborer, working at a plowshop, on railroad construction and as a teacher, Whitman attended Wilberforce University in 1870. There he studied with Bishop Daniel Payne.
Born into slavery, Whitman created a successful career for himself as a writer, and during his lifetime was acclaimed as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". Throughout his lifetime he worked as a manual laborer, school teacher, financial agent, fundraiser and pastor. He died in 1901 of pneumonia.
Whitman stated that he wrote his 1877 poem Not a Manitoba and Yet a Manitoba so that "he might speak more effectively for Wilberforce." He later took other pastoral positions between 1879 and 1883, leading and establishing churches in Ohio, Georgia, Kansas, and Texas.
He died in 1901 of pneumonia. The daughters formed the vaudeville troupe The Whitman Sisters, which lasted from 1900 to 1940s.
Joan Sherman"s entry in African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century refers to Whitman"s poetry as "attempts at full-blown Romantic poetry", emulating the American and British authors from that tradition. Benjamin Brawley referred to Whitman as "probably the ablest of the race before Dunbar,".
And a recent scholar echoes this view, asserting that Whitman was, "one of the most important African American poets between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar and probably the most prolific." In 1901, shortly before his death, Whitman published "An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts".
The opening four lines suggest high romantic poetry through a sentimental reflection on the South: "Hail land of the palmetto and the pine,/From Blue Ridge Mountain down to Mexic"s sea/Sweet with magnolia and cape jassamine,/And thrilled with song, — thou art the land for me!" Ivy Wilson notes that Whitman employed "multitudinous metrical configurations" and that "he was consumed with the aesthetics of sound. Much of his major volumes read like novels in verse." The following works are scholarly collections of Whitman"s work: Whitman, Albery Allson. Ivy G. Wilson educated (2009).
At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman.
The Northeastern Library of Black Literature Series. Northeastern University Press. Significant academic works about Whitman include: Hays, James R (2000).
Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901): epic poet of African American and Native American self-determination (unpublished dissertation). Florida State University.
Mabry, Tyler Grant. "Seizing the laurels: nineteenth-century African American poetic performance." (2011).
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