ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER
\ɪlˈɪzəbəθ mˈɑːɡɹət t͡ʃˈandlə], \ɪlˈɪzəbəθ mˈɑːɡɹət tʃˈandlə], \ɪ_l_ˈɪ_z_ə_b_ə_θ m_ˈɑː_ɡ_ɹ_ə_t tʃ_ˈa_n_d_l_ə]\
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An American poet; born near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 24, 1807; died 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).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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