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Extract - The Negro's Complaint
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Extract from Abolition poem - one of several that Cowper wrote. This poem became a 'civil rights' ballard for the movement: Added: 1st Dec 2007 by Diane Earl
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Subjects: History, Citizenshipsufferings, since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart, All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart. Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind." .... Written 1788 and first published in The Gentleman’s Magazine December 1793 "By our sufferings, since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart, All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart,-- Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind." Key Stages: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS4+ |
