The Commemorative Wreath: In Celebration of the Extinction of Negro Slavery in the British DominionsE. Fry, 1835 - 112 páginas |
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... sacred laws of liberty . Bid him not with laurel bough Entwine Britannia's peaceful brow , The sacred boon her head would crave Were heavenly freedom for the Slave . The greenest leaf , the brightest gem , She asks not for her diadem ...
... sacred laws of liberty . Bid him not with laurel bough Entwine Britannia's peaceful brow , The sacred boon her head would crave Were heavenly freedom for the Slave . The greenest leaf , the brightest gem , She asks not for her diadem ...
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... wife and his little ones sobbing with joy ; No hand might now scatter these sacred possessions , No tyrant the peace of his bosom destroy . In accents evincing a heart touched with gladness , This 21 Freedom's First Sabbath.
... wife and his little ones sobbing with joy ; No hand might now scatter these sacred possessions , No tyrant the peace of his bosom destroy . In accents evincing a heart touched with gladness , This 21 Freedom's First Sabbath.
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... sacred right - alike possessed by all , By lawless force or fraud alone witheld . In our blest isle where LIBERTY presides Is heard no clank of Slavery's hateful chain , The Subject's Freedom is right well secured With jealous care ...
... sacred right - alike possessed by all , By lawless force or fraud alone witheld . In our blest isle where LIBERTY presides Is heard no clank of Slavery's hateful chain , The Subject's Freedom is right well secured With jealous care ...
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... ? — Hath she rather torn in twain Bonds that sacred should remain . Tribulation ! heartfelt word , Could she by thy power refine Minds by ignorance obscured-— She had gained her kind design- We , ere this , full wise had grown By 69.
... ? — Hath she rather torn in twain Bonds that sacred should remain . Tribulation ! heartfelt word , Could she by thy power refine Minds by ignorance obscured-— She had gained her kind design- We , ere this , full wise had grown By 69.
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... sacred rights of dear domestic ties ; Cheer'd with the earnings of rewarded toil , To turn with willing arm the stubborn soil ; And own , with grateful heart , the bounteous hand Which scatters plenty o'er the smiling land . Proud ...
... sacred rights of dear domestic ties ; Cheer'd with the earnings of rewarded toil , To turn with willing arm the stubborn soil ; And own , with grateful heart , the bounteous hand Which scatters plenty o'er the smiling land . Proud ...
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1st August Afric's ALDERSGATE STREET Almighty band beams BERMUDA bless blest blood boast BOLIVAR bonds bosom breath bright Britain British brow burst BUXTON captive free cease chain CHILD OF BONDAGE Christian dark dawn death of Slavery divine e'en earth Emancipation Falmouth fetters Freedom hath Freedom's Freemen glad glad song glorious glorious song glory Gospel light grace grateful grave hail hand heard heart Heaven heavenly holy humble HYMN isles JAMAICA JAMES EDMESTON JAMES MONTGOMERY Jehovah land Liberty Lord M.DCCC.XXXIV Mercy Mercy's Nation ne'er Negro is free night oppressed Oppression's peace praise prayer race redeemed reign rejoice rose sable sacred Saviour shore Sing the death Slavery's son of FREEDOM song of Jubilee sons sorrow soul Sound the loud Spirit stain SUFFIELD sweet tears thanksgiving thee thine Thou hast toil Truth twas tyrant voice wave weep West Indies Whilst WILBERFORCE yoke
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Página 26 - God made all His creatures free ; Life itself is liberty ; God ordained no other bands Than united hearts and hands. 2. Sin the primal charter broke — Sin, itself earth's heaviest yoke ; Tyranny with sin began, Man o'er brute, and man o'er man. 3. But a better day shall be, Life again be liberty, And the wide world's only bands Love-knit hearts and love-linked hands. 4. So shall every slavery cease, All God's children...
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Página 24 - AGES, ages have departed Since the first dark vessel bore Afric's children, broken-hearted, To the Caribbean shore ; She like Rachel, Weeping, for they were no more. Millions, millions have been slaughter'd In the fight and on the deep ; Millions, millions more have water'd, With such tears as captives weep, Fields of travail, Where their bones till doomsday sleep.
Página iv - from a child known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus...
Página 25 - ... captives weep, Fields of travail, Where their bones till doomsday sleep. Mercy, mercy vainly pleading, Rent her garments, smote her breast, Till a voice, from heaven proceeding, Gladden'd all the gloomy west, " Come, ye weary ! Come, and I will give you rest ! " Tidings, tidings of salvation!
Página 111 - The great doubt is solved; the alarming prognostications of the advocates of slavery falsified; the highest hopes of the negro's friends fulfilled, and their pledges honorably redeemed. A whole people, comprising 30,000 souls, have passed from slavery into freedom, not only without the slightest irregularity, but with the solemn and decorous tranquillity of a sabbath.
Página 24 - To this far-off western shore ; She, like Rachel, Weeping, for they were no more. Millions, millions have been slaughtered In the fight and on the deep ; Millions, millions more have watered, With such tears as captives weep, Fields of labor Where their wasted bodies sleep.
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