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    The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
    The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
    The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
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    The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings

    By William Wells Brown

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    The book contains a collection of anti-slavery-themed songs written by William Wells Brown, a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in Kentucky, Brown escaped to Ohio at the age of 19 and settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. His novel 'Clotel,' considered the first novel written by an African American, was published in London, where he resided at the time, before being published in the United States. Brown was a pioneer in several literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. Some of the songs featured in this book include 'Freedom's Banner', 'Ye Sons of Freemen', and 'The Liberty Ball'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2019
    ISBN4064066150464
    The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
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    William Wells Brown

    William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a career abolitionist who escaped slavery before the age of 20. As a young man, Brown worked on a steamboat, while learning how to read and write. He joined several anti-slavery groups and began helping other African Americans seeking asylum. Brown went on to lecture and write several books detailing the horrors of slavery. In 1847, he published Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, a memoir detailing his own harrowing account. This was followed by 1853’s Clotel, which is often considered the first African American novel.

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      The Anti-slavery Harp - William Wells Brown

      William Wells Brown

      The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066150464

      Table of Contents

      FREEDOM’S BANNER.

      O, PITY THE SLAVE MOTHER!

      THE BLIND SLAVE BOY.

      YE SONS OF FREEMEN!

      FREEDOM’S STAR.

      THE LIBERTY BALL.

      THE NORTH STAR.

      OVER THE MOUNTAIN.

      JUBILEE SONG.

      SPIRIT OF FREEMEN, WAKE!

      THE SLAVE’S LAMENTATION.

      SONG FOR THE TIMES.

      FLIGHT OF THE BONDMAN.

      THE SWEETS OF LIBERTY.

      YE SPIRITS OF THE FREE!

      I AM AN ABOLITIONIST.

      THE BEREAVED MOTHER.

      I’LL BE FREE! I’LL BE FREE!

      THE YANKEE GIRL.

      FLING OUT THE ANTI-SLAVERY FLAG.

      JEFFERSON’S DAUGHTER.

      THE SLAVE AUCTION—A FACT.

      GET OFF THE TRACK.

      BE FREE, O MAN, BE FREE.

      THE FUGITIVE SLAVE TO THE CHRISTIAN.

      RESCUE THE SLAVE.

      SONG OF THE COFFLE GANG.

      YE HERALDS OF FREEDOM.

      LAMENT OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE.

      WE’RE COMING, WE’RE COMING.

      ON TO VICTORY.

      FUGITIVE’S TRIUMPH.

      THE BONDMAN.

      RIGHT ON.

      THE MAN FOR ME.

      A SONG FOR FREEDOM.

      THE SLAVE’S SONG.

      THERE’S A GOOD TIME COMING.

      THE BIGOT FIRE.

      OFT IN THE CHILLY NIGHT.

      ARE YE TRULY FREE?

      COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS.

      THE SLAVE’S A MAN, FOR A’ THAT.

      YOUR BROTHER IS A SLAVE.

      WHAT MEAN YE?

      EMANCIPATION SONG.

      INDEX

      SONGS.

      FREEDOM’S BANNER.

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      Air—Freedom’s Banner.

      My country, shall thy honored name,

      Be as a by-word through the world?

      Rouse! for as if to blast thy fame,

      This keen reproach is at thee hurled;

      The banner that above the waves,

      Is floating over three millions slaves.

      That flag, my country, I had thought,

      From noble sires was given to thee;

      By the best blood of patriots bought,

      To wave alone above the Free!

      Yet now, while to the breeze it waves,

      It floats above three millions slaves.

      The mighty dead that flag unrolled,

      They bathed it in the heaven’s own blue;

      They sprinkled stars upon each fold,

      And gave it as a trust to you;

      And now that glorious banner waves

      In shame above three millions slaves.

      O, by the virtues of our sires,

      And by the soil on which they trod,

      And by the trust their name inspires,

      And by the hope we have in God,

      Arouse, my country, and agree

      To set thy captive children free.

      Arouse! and let each hill and glen

      With prayer to the high heavens ring out,

      Till all our land with freeborn men,

      May join in one triumphant shout,

      That freedom’s banner does not wave

      Its folds above a single slave.

      O, PITY THE SLAVE MOTHER!

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      Air—Araby’s Daughter.

      I pity the slave mother, careworn and weary,

      Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast;

      I lament her sad fate, all so hopeless and dreary,

      I lament for her woes, and her wrongs unredressed.

      O who can imagine her heart’s deep emotion,

      As she thinks of her children about to be sold;

      You may picture the bounds of the rock-girdled ocean,

      But the grief of that mother can never be known.

      The mildew of slavery has blighted each blossom,

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