![]() PROFESSOR ANDREW THORPE, EXECUTIVE DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND CULTURES This manuscript shines a light on a significant period where literature and art helped to change the future for the better Written 15 years before the slave trade was abolished by the British Parliament, the poem attacks the evils of slavery and highlights the terrible conditions of the overcrowded boats that took enslaved Africans to the Americas. In its new home at the University of Leeds, the manuscript will join anti-slavery material by Romantic poet Robert Southey, a collection linked to the Anti-Slavery Society which includes letters from Coleridge, and a vast archive of West Yorkshire Quaker Committee records, including meeting notes by key abolitionist William Armistead. The Committee found that it is important to UK history and national life, offering significant insights into the campaign for the abolition of slavery.Ĭoleridge, who was a key figure in the Romantic movement, wrote ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade), in Greek while studying at the University of Cambridge. ![]() The manuscript, which was handwritten by Coleridge in 1792, was put under export bar by the government following recommendations from the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest. ![]() A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.
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