Our Nig; or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a ...

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IN A TWO-STORY WHITE HOUSE, NORTH.

SHOWING THAT SLAVERY'S SHADOWS EALL EVEN THERE.

BY "OUR NIG."

" I know That care has iron crowns for many brows; That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry; That gentle spirits on the rack of pain Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns ; That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise And armed with might, lie evermore in wait Along life's path, giving assault to all." HOLLAND.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY

1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1859,

BY MES. H. E. WILSON,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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