Impromptu

Impromptu

This entry also includes "Free Labor and Slave Labor"

Dr. John Pierpont, at the Boston Anti-Slavery Fair, in 1842, being asked for his autograph, hastily dashed off the following:

Our tobacco they plant, and
our cotton they pick

And our rice they can harvest and thrash;

They feed us in health and they nurse us when sick,

And thy earn while we pocket the cash.

They lead us whn young, and they help us when old,

And their toil loads our tables and shelves;

But they're "n******s," and therefore, (The truth must be told,)

They cannot take care of themselves.

John Pierpont

1:41, p. 1

4.28.1860