Free Labor and Slave Labor

Free Labor and Slave Labor

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

One mouth and one back to two hands is the law

That the hand of his Maker has stamped upon man;

But Slavery lays on God's image her paw,

And fixes him out on a different plan.

Two mouths and two backs to hands she creates,

And the consequence is, as she might have expected,

Let the hands do their best upon all her estates,

The mouths go half fed, and the backs half protected.

DR. PIERPONT.

John Pierpont

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4.28.1860