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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834)

Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. An American poet; born near Wilmington, DE, Dec. 24, 1807; died on Nov. 22, 1834. Her most popular poem was ‘The Slave Ship.’ Many of her subsequent verses were written in the same strain, and published in the Genius of Universal Emancipation, a Philadelphia abolitionist periodical. Her poems were published with a memoir by Benjamin Lundy (1836).