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A Prisoner’s Poem: Philip Freneau’s Account of a British Prison Ship
Most veterans have an aversion to publicly telling their traumatic experiences, preferring instead to let sleeping devils lie. Philip Freneau, however, was a professional writer and poet, not an enlisted soldier. Perhaps that is why he decided to tell his tale of terrortwice—once in prose and once in poetry. Philip Morin Freneau was born in […]
