H. T. Johnson

LitCharts guides for works by H. T. Johnson

Explore LitCharts poetry guides for works by H. T. Johnson. Each guide offers line-by-line analysis, exploration of poetic devices, and helpful resources for studying H. T. Johnson's poetry.

The Black Man's Burden

The clergyman H. T. Johnson wrote "The Black Man's Burden" in 1899 as a response to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," which was published the same year. Kipling's poem makes the raci... view guide