Dazee ...Gilman, 1822 - 47 ページ |
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Afric's coast agitation airy cabin arms baptism beloved BID YOU BUY BLOOD-EXTORTING blooming Negro boy board the ship boat brought burst carried coast of Africa comfort comprehend the purport coun countenance cultivation dark Dazee was born Dazee's dear parent deck divine blessing divine service endeavored English English language ering fant Fath father garden GILMAN groes happy heart heavenly hills holy knew laid length little Dazee looked round Massa MEANS WHICH DUTY ment mercy mind miserable missionary missionary-house native negro woman never NEWBURYPORT pious place of wor poor boy poor captives poor heathen poor mother poor woman poot port of Sierra pray prayer RE-CAPTURED NEGRO re-captured slaves recollected ship-officers Sierra Leone slave-ship slave-vessel sleep sold a blooming song of praise speak STATE-STREET suffered tains taught tears things trees understand vessel village voice woods worship YE SOMETIMES TELL young negro
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46 ページ - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England'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 white and black the same.
47 ページ - Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords. Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, Is there one who reigns on high? Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky? Ask him, if your knotted scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges, Agents of his will to use ? Hark!
47 ページ - Hark ! he answers — Wild tornadoes Strewing yonder sea with wrecks ; Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrants' habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No.
46 ページ - FORCED from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn ; To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold.
47 ページ - Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS. Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.
46 ページ - Lolling at your jovial boards ; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords. Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, Is there one who reigns on high ? Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne the sky?
45 ページ - ... assistance from the missionaries until his mother began to understand somewhat of the English language. It pleased the Lord, however, in his good time, to bless the efforts of Dazee for the spiritual welfare of his beloved parent ; and the author has great pleasure in reporting, that, after residing little more than two years in the station, she gave such satisfactory evidence of a change of heart, that it was thought proper to receive her into the church, by the administration of holy baptism....
45 ページ - WE* not the work of a few hours, or of a few days, to make this poor woman comprehend the important truths of the Christian religion, although her pious son labored incessantly in this great work, in which he could receive no material assistance from the missionaries until his mother began to understand somewhat of the English language. It pleased the Lord, howev'er, in his good time, to bless the efforts of...
29 ページ - The world he now saw was the real one; that other world in which he had been born and in which he had lived...