Ichabod

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"Ichabod" is a famous 1850 anti-slavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier lamenting Daniel Webster’s support of the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
poem
addressesIssue enforcement of fugitive slave laws
associatedWith New England Anti-Slavery Society
surface form: New England abolitionism

Whittier's political poetry
author John Greenleaf Whittier
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes Daniel Webster
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
depicts moral decline of a public figure
firstPublicationMedium American periodical press
form lyric poem
genre anti-slavery literature
poetry
historicalContext American abolitionist movement
Compromise of 1850
intendedAudience Northern U.S. readers
language English
literaryDevice apostrophe
biblical allusion
invective
literaryMovement American abolitionist literature
mainTheme moral betrayal
political protest
slavery
meter traditional rhymed verse
moralStance condemnation of compromise with slavery
politicalPosition anti-slavery
portraysAs Daniel Webster as fallen statesman
publicationYear 1850
titleAllusion Ichabod (biblical figure)
tone condemnatory
lamenting

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John notableWork Ichabod
subject surface form: John Greenleaf Whittier