“Composed for a group of overland emigrants, who left Massachusetts, in the spring of 1849.”
Category: antislavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852-1859?)
“Euclid… is no child for effecting social revolutions, but an impassioned song may set a world in conflagration.” ~ The London Times (3 September 1852)
Nelly Gray (Hanby, 1856)
Benjamin Hanby wrote Nelly Gray in 1856, in response to a fugitive slave case …
