It’s hard to say how someone would take a poem, especially one that has such a controversial topic as this one does. I think it would have been more effective in the understanding of the situation of slavery but not so much an instrument of abolition. This poem specifically follows a woman’s journey in a slave life, and the steps that she took that put her in the dangerous position that she was in. This rebellion and showing of strength could have been a good example of ‘sticking it to the man.’ But it was also violent in a controversial way. It showed a good example at how hard choices had to be in situations like this, but it also hides or chooses not to share some important factors that are included in events like this.
This could also be dangerous because in a way it supported Justice Taney’s statement in the sense that it showed how violent and revengeful an individual could be able how it might be dangerous for the whites after all that they’ve done (not siding with the whites on this, just saying it slightly helps the argument). Other than that, it does not seem to have much support for the statement since all the rights that were mentioned are rights that every person deserved to hang, no matter their background.