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A Southern Slave Auction, a Ballad.
Composed by Polly M. Rowe, blind from the age of three. Poetry broadside, 20 quatrains in two columns of ten, divided by a rule, the entire within an elaborate border, 11x3/4 inches; two creases where folded. Np, circa 1840
- Notes: An unusual poem on the sale of a young woman who had obviously been passing, or rather "passed" by her adoptive father, "young and fair, with Northern girls she'd well compare. Her features small, her lips were thin..." The poem intimates that this young, light-skinned woman was sold by her father, a merchant, to settle his debts. While in all likelihood the work of Northern abolitionists, the theme is rather unusual. The poem purports to be written in the South by a blind girl.
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