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The Negro's Complaint.
Manuscript poem in 4 stanzas, in the center of which is a finely drawn pen-and-ink and wash depiction of the familiar kneeling slave introduced by Wedgwood in 1787, on a small 4to sheet; framed. Probably England, circa 1840
- Notes: Nicely calligraphed and executed. The poem is written in the first person and begins, "Forc'd from home and all its pleasures / Afric's coast I left forlorn / To increase a stranger's treasures ' o'er the raging billows borne / Men from England bought and sold me / Paid my price in paltry gold / But tho: slave they have enroll'd me / Minds are never to be sold."
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