America and Other Poems
Whitfield, J. M. / Editions, Mint
“America, it is to thee, / Thou boasted land of liberty, — / It is to thee I raise my song, / Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong.” In America and Other Poems, his first and only book of poems, J.M. Whitfield rejects the myth of liberty, longing instead for when the sufferings of the enslaved “shall be redressed.”