Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 29.
“Forced from home and all its pleasures
Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase a stranger's treasures
O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enrolled me,
Minds are never to be sold.”
Source: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 1-8
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