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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09003 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Slavery Days |
| Date | ca. 1865 |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Printing of an anti-slavery poem written from the perspective of an older male slave who is close to dying. The first verse reads, "I am thinking now to day of the years that's pass'd away, When they tied me up in bondage long ago, In old Virginia State, it was there we separate, And it filled my heart with misery and woe; They took away my boy, he was his mother's joy, From a baby in the cradle we him raised, And they put us far apart, and it broke the old man's heart, In those agonising cruel slavery days." |
| Subjects | Abolition Slavery Poetry African American History |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | African Americans; Children & Family; Slavery & Abolition; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |