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The Negro's Complaint

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The Negro's Complaint is a poem by William Cowper, which talks about slavery from the perspective of the slave.[1] It was written in 1788.[2][3] It was intended to be sung to the tune of a popular ballad, Admiral Hosier's Ghost.[4]

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"The Negro's Complaint" (1788)

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  1. ^ "Historical Analysis". Marymount University. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  2. ^ Fulford, Tim; Kitson, Peter J. ""Romanticism and colonialism: races, places, peoples, 1785-1800," page 4 of 5". www.rc.umd.edu. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  3. ^ Ingrassia, Catherine E.; Ravel, Jeffrey S. (4 May 2005). Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. JHU Press. p. 107. ISBN 9780801881923. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  4. ^ Fairer, David; Gerrard, Christine (3 December 2014). Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 627. ISBN 9781118824757. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  5. ^ Cowper, William (1913). Milford, H. S. (ed.). The Complete Poetical Works. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 371-372.
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