THE AFRICAN BOY.
Reading edition
BY THE AUTHOR OF “Twilight Hours Improved,” &c. &c.
And man, where Freedom’s beams and fountains rise,
Springs from the dust, and blossoms to the skies.
Dead to the joys of light and life, the slave
Clings to the clod; his root is in the grave.
Bondage is winter, darkness, death, despair;
Freedom the sun, the sea, the mountain, and the air!
Montgomery.
London: PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET. 1823.
TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq. M. P.
THIS SMALL VOLUME, DIFFIDENTLY AIMING TO SERVE THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY IS, BY HIS KIND PERMISSION TO GIVE IT THE SANCTION OF HIS NAME, HUMBLY DEDICATED; WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF UNFEIGNED VENERATION AND RESPECT FOR HIS EXALTED PATRIOTIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES,
And grateful acknowledgment OF HIS CONDESCENSION, IN HONOURING WITH HIS ATTENTION THE HUMBLE EFFORTS OF
THE AUTHOR.