The crate was small, just big enough for one young woman to curl inside. For fifteen hours it rocked in the dark belly of a ship leaving Baltimore, carrying not cargo but a life—and a gamble for freedom. Inside was Lear Green. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at night. In 1857, these docks were the starting point [...]
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Carrie Williams Clifford, a Poet and Activist
Carrie Williams Clifford’s poetry cut straight to the heart of America’s inequalities—speaking from the lived perspectives of both racism and sexism. Her first book of poems was dedicated to her mother, her second to Black Americans. She called for action through her verse, urging readers to “change some evil heart, right some wrong, and raise [...]
American Pulp Culture 