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FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
STROKES FOR FREEDOM

A Series of
ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS.

of which
HALF A MILLION.
ARE NOW FIRST ISSUED
by the
FRIENDS OF THE NEGRO

Wilson Armistead
'LAY THE AXE TO THE ROOT OF THE CORRUPT TREE."
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LONDON.
W. & E. Cash, 5 Bishopsgate St.
William Tweedie  337 Strand,
and may be had of all 'booksellers.
1858

Nos. 1 thru 82

Leeds Anti-slavery Series, No. 14

THE DEATH OF THE SLAVE
By Maria Lowell.

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IN a low and ill-thatched hut,
     Stretched on a floor of clay,
With scanty clothing round her wrapped,
     The dying woman lay.

No husband's kindly hand,
     No loving child was near,
To offer her their aid, or shed
     A sypathizing tear.

For now the ripened cane
     Was ready for the knife,
And not a slave cold be spared to aid
     His mother or his wife.

She is struggling now with death,
     Deep was that dying groan,
For a corpse now lies on the cold clay floor,
     The soul, set free, has flown.

The planter, walking by,
     Chanced at the door to stop,
And he cursed his luck, "there was one hand less
     To gather in the crop."

O, Jesus! thou has said,
     "The poor your care shall be:
Who visit ot the poor and sick,
     They do it not to me."


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 14.
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends' Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
 

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