 What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains ! The whip on WOMAN'S shrinking flesh ! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS...  Poems - 114. oldalszerző: John Greenleaf Whittier - 1893 - 405 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 240 oldal
...fetter's clank ! — Slaves — SLAVES are breaihing in that air Which old De Kalb and Sumpter drank ! What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains ! — The...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 oldal
...fetter's clank !— Slaves — SLAVES are breathing in that air Which old De Kalb and Sumpter drank ! What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains! — The whip...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 236 oldal
...fetter's clank !— Slavei—SLAVES are breathing in that air Which old De Kalb and Sumpter drank ! What, ho !—our countrymen in chains !— The whip...What! mothers from their children riven !— What ! Ood's own image bought and sold ! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold... | |
 | 1838 - 536 oldal
...the fetter's clank! Slaves — SLAVES are breathing in that air. Which old De Kalb and Sumter drank ! What ho! — our countrymen in chains! The whip on...stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh 1 What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS to... | |
 | Sarah Moore Grimké - 1838 - 140 oldal
...earth, while their naked bodies are torn by the scorpion lash. ' The whip on WOMAN'S shrinking fleeh ! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging warm and fresh.' Can any American woman look at these scenes of shocking licentiousness and cruelty, and fold her hands... | |
 | 1892 - 890 oldal
...heat, like the " Marseillaise," and full of the most impassioned pleading and burning denunciation. What ho ! our countrymen in chains ! The whip on WOMAN'S...! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God' s own image bought and sold I market driven, as the brute for gold ! The fugitive slave might... | |
 | 1845 - 234 oldal
...the fetter's clank ! Slaves— SLAVES are breathing in that air, Which old De Kalb and Sumter drank ! What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains ! The whip...with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and What ! mothers from their children riven ! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market... | |
 | 1846 - 302 oldal
...fetter's clank ! Slaees — SLAVES are breathing in that air, Which old De Kalb and Sumter drank ! What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains ! The whip...bought and sold ! AMERICANS to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in... | |
 | 1853 - 188 oldal
...the fetters clank! Slaves — SLAVES are breathing in that air, Which old De Kalb and Sumter drank! What, ho ! — our countrymen in chains ! The whip...AMERICANS to market driven, And bartered as the brute for goM! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain? To us whose fathers... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 oldal
...of the land. The change wrought upon him was soon noticed by Clotel. CHAPTEE V. THE SLAVE MARKET. " WHAT ! mothers from their children riven! What! God's...image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold."— Whittier. NOT far from Canal-street, in the city of New Orleans,... | |
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