What is the appropriateness of the title "The Slave's Dream"?

The title of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The
Slave's Dream" is completely appropriate given the action of the text. The poem details
the dream of a slave.

The poem beings with the slave laying
by rice, with a sickle in his hand. The slave has not yet, or has stopped, begun working
on harvesting the rice. Instead, the slave lays down and begins to
dream.

Beside
the ungathered rice he lay,/ His sickle in his hand;/ His breast was bare, his matted
hair/ Was buried in the sand,/ Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,/ He saw his
Native Land.

After falling
asleep, the slave dreams of his home. In the end, his sleep was what saved him from ever
being beaten by a master's whip or the heat of the day. The slave never awakes from his
final sleep. Instead, his soul is able to finally find rest in
death.

Therefore, the title of the poem offers a direct
link to what the poem is about. A reader does not have to "read between the lines" or
use any type of inferences or assumptions to realize the action of the
poem.