The most talented and the most significant of all the African-American poets between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar was Albery Whitman. The Rape of Florida is a long poem telling the tragic love story of a Mickasukie chief, and the young daughter of a Spanish nobleman. But more than just a love story, it is a powerful, forthright call for self-determination and freedom by a Black poet.
Author: Albery A. Whitman · Original publisher: Nixon-Jones Printing Co. (1884; revised edition as *Twasinta's Seminoles; or, Rape of Florida*, 1885)
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