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Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly Edition Main Menu Editor's Introduction Editor's Introduction The Published Anthology Contains all of the pieces published in the anthology, with an editor's note Selected Unpublished Pieces Transcriptions of some unpublished pieces sent to Rawson Text analysis Results of analysing the anthology and its manuscripts Network Analysis Network analysis prototypes, including a network graph of connections in the archive Map of Placenames A map of all places associated with pieces in the anthology People Mentioned Bow in the Cloud: Personography Further Readings A Bibliography of sources relating to this project This project was supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication in 2023/2024 (FEL-289788). Find project data on GitHub.

Hill, Richard

Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9310294

Born: 1795

Died: 1872

Faith: ?

Note: Richard Hill (1795-1872) was a Jamaican lawyer, zoologist, politician, and poet, as
well as leader of the free people of colour, which campaigned for equal rights in
the early nineteenth century. He was also close to Thomas Pringle and wrote several letters to him about conditions in Haiti (see also this blog on Hill's letters to Pringle).

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On Richard Hill Richard Hill (1795–1872) is the only known mixed-race author in the Bow in the Cloud. He was a lawyer and poet and a staunch advocate for equal rights in Jamaica.