Class Year
2014
Document Type
Creative Writing
Date of Creation
Fall 2012
Department 1
English
Abstract
This poem, Auctioned, is about slaves who were severely punished simply because of their skin tone. The setting of the poem is in the early 1800s. This poem vividly describes the hanging, whipping, and shooting of slaves.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Sophia K., "Auctioned" (2012). Student Publications. 81.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/81
Comments
In the Fall of 2012, Professor Nadine Meyer brought her students from ENG 302 The Writing of Poetry: New Poems, New Poets to Special Collections, Musselman Library, to view some primary source collections and exhibits.
Sophia Reid, Class of 2014, was drawn to the exhibit Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era. The plantation era objects she witnessed were on loan to Special Collections from the private collection of Angelo Scarlato.