...me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But though slave they have enrolled me Minds are never to be sold. Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's...differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. 12 I belonged to Mrs. Newtown's sewing society—for making negro clothes—but I learned from...

...arrival of captured Africans at Jamestown in 1620, begins with an epigraph of common abolitionist verse: "Fleecy locks and black complexion/ Cannot forfeit...claim;/ Skins may differ, but affection/ Dwells in black and white the same" (72). That chapter goes on to decry the "wickedness" of slave traders (73),...

...ever, What are Christian s rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task? Fleecy locks, and black complexion, Cannot forfeit...nature's claim; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in black and white the same. Why did all-creating nature Make the plant for which we toil? Sighs must...

...Britain to abstain from West Indian sugar and rum so as to abolish the slave trade. Here is an excerpt: Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant for which we toil? Sighs must fan it, Tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think ye Masters, iron-hearted, Lolling...

...English antislavery pamphlet and almost immediately picked up in 1788 by a Poughkeepsie newspaper chided, Fleecy locks and black complexion, Cannot forfeit...nature's claim; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in black and white the same O THOU! who dost with equal eye All human kind survey, And mad'st all nations...

...Cannot forfeit Nature's claims; Skins may differ, but affections Dwell in black and white the same. Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant for which we toil? Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of oar's must dress the soil. 1 The subject of this poem does...