GONE, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews. Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty... Poems: By John G. Whittier, Illus. by H. Billing - Page 163by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| African American songs - 1845 - 234 pages
...sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and rs— ®— 4-b-+-f-1 — Hg— 1-S — H—f— — T 2. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone, Where the slave -whip ceaseless swings, Where the lone, There no moth - er's eye is near them, There no — ,*>... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...laugh, denoting still deeper agony. Most of them leave the market for cotton or rice plantations, " Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome...sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air." CHAPTER VI. THE RELIGIOUS TEACHER. " WHAT ! preach and enslave men ? Give thanks—,and rob thy own... | |
| Wilson Armistead - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 380 pages
...the last-mentioned paper. " Behold and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow" (Lam. i. 12). GONE, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air. Gone, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank... | |
| Wilson Armistead - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 384 pages
...the last-mentioned paper. ' Behold and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow" (Lam. i. 12). GONE, gone, sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank...lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 316 pages
...sold And gone. Tu the riec-iwamp dank and lone. Where the «lavo-whip ceaeelces twinge, ЛУЬсги the noisome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews. Where the «ckly sunbeams glare Through the hot and uiUty air, — IJone, gone, — Bt'ld and gone, To the rice... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 278 pages
...strange and distant land ! THE FAREWELL XIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HEB DAUGHTERS, SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE. Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, \Vherc the noisome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Whore... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 276 pages
...distant land ! THE FAREWELb A VRCINIA 8LAVB МОТИВЕ TO HER DAUGHTERS, 8OLD IKTO SOUTHER* BONDAGE. Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Where the slave-whip ceaseless swing», Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews,... | |
| John Lawrence - Slave trade - 1854 - 230 pages
...mournful strains the Virginia slave mother's lament for her daughters, sold and gone to the far South. Gone, gone — sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. Where the Blave-whip ccaseless swings, Where the noisesome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison... | |
| David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...Virginian slave-mother to her children sold to the far south. "We quote one verse: " Gone, gone—sold and gone To the rice-swamp dank and lone, Where the...sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air/— Gone, gone—sold and gone, To the rice-swamp dank and lone. From Virginia's hills and waters,—* Woe is... | |
| Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 512 pages
...lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, "Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever-demon strews Poison with the falling dews. Where the sickly...and misty air : — Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! ' " The... | |
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