Please write me what is this poem saying thank u?

Question

Make me a grave where'er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth's humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom.

I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,
And the mother's shriek of wild despair
Rise like a curse on the trembling air.

I could not sleep if I saw the lash
Drinking her blood at each fearful gash,
And I saw her babes torn from her breast,
Like trembling doves from their parent nest.

I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay
Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,
And I heard the captive plead in vain
As they bound afresh his galling chain.

If I saw young girls from their mother's arms
Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,
My eye would flash with a mournful flame,
My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.

I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might
Can rob no man of his dearest right;
My rest shall be calm in any grave
Where none can call his brother a slave.

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

Answer 1

The speaker is talking about his burial and where he wants to rest for eternity and he/she states that being buried near slaves would be horrible. The main point of the poem is to explore slavery and the negative attributes of it and how people were treated and what really happened. for instance it talk sabout daughters being torn from their mothers breast and sold, families were often split up and sold to different owners for different purposes, imagine how that would feel? Basically the speaker does not want to lay with these people because they cannot be at rest after all they have been through, and he wants to be known as a real man, not a slave. When he states that he could hear them walking around, that could reference how racism and forms of slavery still exist today.
Hope this helps, good luck!

Answer 2

When he dies he wants to be known not a slave but a man.