<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345748" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rescue The Slave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave, was<br>confined in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, expecting to be carried back<br>to Virginia by James B. Gray, his claimant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sadly the fugitive weeps in his cell,<br>Listen awhile to the story we tell;<br>Listen ye gentle ones, listen ye brave,<br>Lady fair! Lady fair! weep for the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Praying for liberty, dearer than life,<br>Torn from his little one, torn from his wife,<br>Flying from slavery, hear him and save,<br>Christian men! Christian men! help the poor slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of his agony, feel for his pain,<br>Should his hard master e'er hold him again;<br>Spirit of liberty, rise from your grave,<br>Make him free, make him free, rescue the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freely the slave master goes where he will;<br>Freemen, stand ready, his wishes to fulfil,<br>Helping the tyrant, or honest or knave,<br>Thinking not, caring not, for the poor slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Talk not of liberty, liberty is dead;<br>See the slave master's whip over our head;<br>Stooping beneath it, we ask what he craves,<br>Boston boys! Boston boys! catch me my slaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freemen, arouse ye, before it's too late;<br>Slavery is knocking, at every gate,<br>Make good the promise, your early days gave,<br>Boston boys! Boston boys! rescue the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345748" data-title="Rescue The Slave de Anonymous Americas" data-description="This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave, was confined in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, expecting to be carried back to Virginia by James B. Gray, his claimant. Sadly the fugitive weeps in his cell, Listen awhile to the sto..."></div> </div> </div>

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