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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Bedigan

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS

A rare anti-slavery poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found.

The poem, a Greek Sapphic ode titled Ode On The West-Indian Slave Trade, discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route.

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