(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION MUSIC) COLLINS [JOHN] The Desponding

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--MUSIC.) COLLINS, [JOHN]. The Desponding Negro, a Favorite New Song Written by Mr. Collins. Three pages of engraved music with the title in several different fonts embellished on the front page. London: Longman & Broderip, 1792

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an early piece of abolitionist music, no doubt inspired by William Wilber force's powerful presentation of "The Abstract of the Evidence," before Parliament the year before with the famed engraving of the hold of the slave ship Brooke.

"On Africa's wide Plains, where the Lion now roaring,
With Freedom stalks forth, the vast Desert exploring,
I was dragg'd from my Hut, and enchain'd as a Slave,
In a dark floating Dungeon, upon the salt Wave.
Spare a Halfpenny spare a Halfpenny spare a
Halfpenny to a poor Negro."