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Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice bound to pull them back
And leave the sandy colored pigs to suck.

Source: The Slave, in Liberator, 29 Mar 1834.
-- 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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