Poetry: Shall Freemen Foster Slavery?
Alas; tne Donamans siory, With cruel inj'ries fraught. Has trac'd our nation's glory, With deep damnation's blot ! His tears have stained our banner, Made ditn our early fame, And on our nation's honor Starap'd infaray and shamo. And shall this frceborn nation Still trade in human souls? While men of ev'ry station The lust of gold controls? Shall freemen foster slavery, And wield oppression's rod, And ruin thtir knavery "The noblest work of God?" Shall man, in worth outshining Peruvian gems and gold, In slaver's chains be pinng - Like brute s be bought and soldi Shall he be taught by scourges, Bo driven by the blow, Who, through eternal ages, In intellect shall grow? Ah! no; his freedom spirit Above its chaina ehall i-iss, And after death ioherit A crown boyond the skiee: 'Tis free as oura forever, It cannot be confiu'd; E'en Slavery's fetters never Can wholly crush the mind.
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Antislavery Poetry
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Old News
Signal of Liberty