American literatureAmerican poetryRomanticismNatural historyNineteenth centuryImperialismRacismSlaveryGenocideMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
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