Title Page, 'The Rainbow', by James Montgomery, and Epigraphs
THE
BOW IN THE CLOUD;
OR,
The Negro's Memorial.
a collection of original contributions,
in prose and poetry,
illustrative of the evils of slavery,
and
commemorative of its abolition in the
british colonies.
Sign of the passing storm,
Symbol of wrath gone by,
Born of the cloud and sun,—what form
Of beauty tracks the sky?
From Afric to the Isles of slaves,
The Rainbow spans the Atlantic waves.
Black, white, and bond, and free,
Castes and proscriptions cease;
The Negro wakes to liberty;
The Negro sleeps in peace;
Read the great charter on his brow,
"I AM a Man, a Brother NOW."
j. montgomery.
LONDON:
JACKSON AND WALFORD,
18, st. paul's church-yard.
1834.
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london: r. clay, printer, bread-street-hill.
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The entire Profits arising from the sale of this volume will be devoted to the West-Indian Negroes.
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And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that where-with the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him."
Deuteronomy xv. 13, 14.
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---- "Receive him for ever; not now as a Slave but above a Slave, a Brother beloved." -- Epistle to Philemon, 15, 16.
