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(FOLK ART.) Who shall avenge the slave. Black scissor-cut picture of a kneeling slave beneath a tree, surmounting fourteen lines of manuscript
(FOLK ART.) Who shall avenge the slave. Black scissor-cut picture of a kneeling slave beneath a tree, surmounting fourteen lines of manuscript poetic text, on a sheet of pink paper measuring 7x9 inches. Np, mid 19th century
- Notes: A sensitive piece of anti-slavery poetry that does not resort to the usual conventions of the genre. The appeal to avenge the slave is made to the natural elements of the sea, the sky, etc., but the poem concludes that only man can avenge the slave. The scissor-cut of the slave under the tree is very fitting, given the poem's strong dependence on natural elements.
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