The second part of Book I of "The Canticles" continues the dialogue - as dramatic monologues - of those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In this work, Dante can critique Christopher Columbus and Frederick Douglass can upbraid Abraham Lincoln; Elizabeth Barrett Browning can muse on her African racial heritage and its implications for child-bearing, while Karl Marx can excoriate Queen Victoria. | Canticles I: (MMXVII) by George Elliott Clarke, Paperback | Indigo Chapters