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 | Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. |  |
OUR NIG;
OR,
Sketches from the Life of a free Black,
IN A TWO-STORY WHITE HOUSE, NORTH.
Sketches from the Life of a free Black,
IN A TWO-STORY WHITE HOUSE, NORTH.
SHOWING THAT SLAVERY'S SHADOWS FALL EVEN THERE.
BY
"OUR NIG."
"I know
That care has iron crowns for many brows;
That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon
Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears
Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks
At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry;
That gentle spirits on the rack of pain
Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns;
That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise
And armed with might, lie evermore in wait
Along life's path, giving assault to all."—HOLLAND.
That care has iron crowns for many brows;
That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon
Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears
Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks
At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry;
That gentle spirits on the rack of pain
Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns;
That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise
And armed with might, lie evermore in wait
Along life's path, giving assault to all."—HOLLAND.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY.1859.
BY MRS. H. E. WILSON,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
| Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. | |