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Title: Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Subjects: Slavery
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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aching abolition on a writ drawn by Hon.M. N., Jr., of Pittsfield. The sherift served the writ whilethe elder was praying. Note 7, page 118, The academy at Canaan, N. H., re-ceived one or two colored scholars, and was in consequencedragged off into a swamp by Democratic teams. Note 8, page 119. Papers and memorials touching thesubject of slavery shall be laid on the table without reading,debate, or reference. So read the gag-law, as it was called,introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton. Note 9, page 120. The Female Anti-Slavery Society, atits first meeting in Concord, was assailed with stones andbrickbats. Note 10, page 168. The election of Charles Sumner tothe United States Senate followed hard upon the rendi-tion of the fugitive Sims by the United States officials andthe armed police of Boston. Note 11, page 290. For the idea of this line, I am in-debted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rho-dora, — If eyes were made for seeing,Xbeu Beauty is its own excuse for being. /^
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