Henry Longfellow’s poem, “The Slave’s Dream,” struggles with the dream of a slave as he is dying. In the first stanza he starts by telling us that the slave was given a task, but by him being so sick and near death it was left undone. From then on Longfellow gives us vivid insight into the slave’s dream. He lets us know that the slave goes back to when he was the king of his native land which was Africa. Longfellow tells readers that the slave dreams of the day when he will be free again and explain the things that he hears such as the tinkling caravan and seeing his wife and children. At the end Longfellow let readers know that although the slave was not free from slavery while alive he was freed by
