Question
An angel instructs the speaker to send his words “over the Western Sea” in a poem about this political issue whose main section ends each stanza with the refrain, “This is the curse. Write.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this subject of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “A Curse for a Nation.” In another Browning poem about this issue, a woman at Pilgrim’s Point recounts the death of her child.
ANSWER: slavery [or slave labor or enslavement or equivalents; accept abolitionism or free labor or equivalents; accept slave trade or equivalents; prompt on labor]
[10h] This other English poet asked the “Bright intellectual Sun” why it distributes to earth “only partial day” in her poem “Slavery.” This member of the Blue Stockings Society was an ally of William Wilberforce.
ANSWER: Hannah More
[10e] The most famous of the Olney Hymns, a collaboration between John Newton and the abolitionist poet William Cowper, is this poem whose speaker says he “Was blind, but now I see.”
ANSWER: “Amazing Grace”
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 12.50 | 90% | 30% | 5% |
Data
| Brown | McGill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ottawa | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Truman State | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |