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George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

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Alas! and am I born for this? To wear this slavish chain?

Source: On Liberty and Slavery, Poems by a Slave, 1829.
-- George Moses Horton, ( c. 1800-1880), US poet; He sold love poems to students in an effort to buy his freedom, though he gained his liberty only with abolition; wrote Naked Genius, 1865.


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