Anti-Slavery Poems 3.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Anti-Slavery Poems 3.
John Greenleaf Whittier · English
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Anti-Slavery Poems 3.
John Greenleaf Whittier · English
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A SABBATH SCENE. This poem finds its justification in the readiness with which, even in the North, clergymen urged the prompt execution of the Fugitive Slave Law as a Christian duty, and defended the system of slavery as a Bible institution. SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bell Ceased quivering in the steeple, Scarce had the parson to his desk Walked stately through his people, When down the summer-shaded street A wasted female figure, With dusky brow and naked feet,
Anti-Slavery Poems 3.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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