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Anthology focuses on slavery words
From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20030119
Author:RENEE TAWA
Anthology focuses on slavery words
By RENEE TAWA Los Angeles Times
Sunday, January 19, 2003
Decades before Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass published their famous works, an anonymous village poet in Cambridge, England, wrote a gravestone inscription for the orphaned 4-year-old daughter of a former slave.
The girl, Anna Maria Vassa, was buried in St. Andrew's churchyard; the children of villagers left "choice flowers" on her grave. She was the daughter of an African man "torn from his native field, ah foul disgrace," the poet lamented in July 1797.
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