Anti-Slavery Poems by John Pierpont epub fb2 djvu

John Pierpont (1785-1866) was an American poet. He was successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and lastly a Congregational minister. He became known not only as a reform lecturer, but also as an expert on phrenology and spiritualism. He gained a literary reputation with his book Airs of Palestine: A Poem (1816), re-published in an anthology by the same name in 1840. He also published moral literature, such as Cold Water Melodies and Washington Songster (1842). He was an important influence on reform-minded antebellum poets. His poems were frequently recited at public antislavery meetings. Oliver Johnson, a leading antislavery publisher and Garrison associate, published Pierpont’s Anti-Slavery Poems in 1843. The collection contains poems that had appeared mostly in the poetry columns of The Liberator and The National Anti-Slavery Standard. His many published sermons include: The Burning of the Ephesian Letters (1833), Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice (1834), New Heavens and a New Earth (1837), Moral Rule of Political Action (1839), National Humiliation (1840) and A Discourse on the Covenant with Judas (1842).