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(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) The Dying Negro: a Poem. New Edition. Engraved title vignette of a slave in chains. x, 24 pages. 4to, disbound, secured with modern staples near gutter edges. London: Flexney, 1787
Based on a true incident in which a Negro servant and a white servant had decided to marry. When the Negro, who belonged to the captain of a West-Indiaman, left his master's house to be baptized, he was captured and taken aboard his master's ship. Rather than be separated from his bride-to-be, he shot himself.
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